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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.