Philosopher Quotes

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.