All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceGenerally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. Votes: 2
David HumeWhoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. Votes: 2
Bertrand RussellPhilosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. Votes: 2
Nicolas ChamfortAll philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Votes: 2
Samuel ButlerIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Votes: 1
Benjamin FranklinHe was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Votes: 1
Douglas AdamsIf you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants Votes: 1
Friedrich NietzscheA philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. Votes: 1
Ludwig WittgensteinThe underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. Votes: 0
Tom BissellThere was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently Votes: 0
William ShakespeareAn excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. Votes: 0
John W. GardnerGreat novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments. Votes: 0
Albert CamusThe philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensI am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher. Votes: 0
Hugh HefnerThere is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroI was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaNo philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerNo philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy. Votes: 0
Anthony MaraisThere is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroA philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. Votes: 0
John C. WrightPosterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotThere is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world Votes: 0
Piero ScaruffiThou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. Votes: 0
William WordsworthEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. Votes: 0
EpicurusThe philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheA philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielThe philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. Votes: 0
William BarrettA philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. Votes: 0
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron DewarI could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. Votes: 0
Mattie StepanekThe man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacI am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerTherefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. Votes: 0
AristotleThe business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. Votes: 0
Morris Raphael CohenTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauThey deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) Votes: 0
PlatoThe French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. Votes: 0
Michael O'LearyFaith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936) Votes: 0
Miguel de UnamunoAs a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroI'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. Votes: 0
Sun RaThe words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. Votes: 0
EpicurusThis sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin. Votes: 0
SocratesI am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. Votes: 0
Daniel DennettThe elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. Votes: 0
Hilda DoolittleNo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhat the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheI like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher. Votes: 0
Richard MarshallTo decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Votes: 0
Karl JaspersTo be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. Votes: 0
William JamesAccording to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat Votes: 0
MoliereThere is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThe philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinA man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerWhen life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranThe philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamTo rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. Votes: 0
Victor HugoIn order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well. Votes: 0
Daniel S. LoebIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovA philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. Votes: 0
Jean le Rond d'AlembertEvery fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. Votes: 0
Marian Hooper AdamsI would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. Votes: 1 Shan Sa
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. Votes: 1 Moses Mendelssohn
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real. Votes: 2 Philip K. Dick