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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.
To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.
An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.