Philosopher Quotes

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.'

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.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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.

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

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

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.

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

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

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

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'