Philosopher Quotes

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

I am not 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.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

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

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.