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The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.
There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.