Quotes about Philosophers

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Votes: 4

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. Votes: 3

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness Votes: 3

Philosophers are only men in armor after all. Votes: 3

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Votes: 3

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. Votes: 3

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. Votes: 3

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone. Votes: 3

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Votes: 3

Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. Votes: 3

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. Votes: 3

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. Votes: 3

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. Votes: 3

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. Votes: 3

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. Votes: 3

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. Votes: 3

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. Votes: 3

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! Votes: 3

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. Votes: 3

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. Votes: 3

Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! Votes: 3

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. Votes: 3

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. Votes: 3

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). Votes: 3

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. Votes: 3

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Votes: 3

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Votes: 3

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Votes: 3

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. Votes: 3

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. Votes: 3

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. Votes: 3

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. Votes: 3

Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism. Votes: 3

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. Votes: 3

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. Votes: 3

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. Votes: 3

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. Votes: 3

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Votes: 3

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. Votes: 3

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry. Votes: 3

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature. Votes: 3

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them. Votes: 3

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? Votes: 3

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. Votes: 3

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori. Votes: 3

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance. Votes: 3

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony. Votes: 3

Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world. Votes: 3

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. Votes: 3

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc. Votes: 3

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce. Votes: 3

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. Votes: 3

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge. Votes: 3

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind. Votes: 3

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. Votes: 3

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Votes: 3

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. Votes: 3

Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going. Votes: 3

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing. Votes: 3

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. Votes: 3

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. Votes: 3

Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma. Votes: 3

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Votes: 3

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. Votes: 3

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen. Votes: 3

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them. Votes: 3

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. Votes: 2

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. Votes: 1

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Votes: 1

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. Votes: 1

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. Votes: 1

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Votes: 1

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Votes: 1

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. Votes: 1

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. Votes: 1

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. Votes: 1

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Votes: 1

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. Votes: 1

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. Votes: 1

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Votes: 1

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Votes: 1

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Votes: 1

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. Votes: 1

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Votes: 1

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Votes: 1

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. Votes: 1

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. Votes: 1

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers. Votes: 1

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Votes: 1

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. Votes: 1

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? Votes: 1

Good comedians are great philosophers. Votes: 0

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Votes: 0

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. Votes: 0

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. Votes: 0

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am. Votes: 0

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers. Votes: 0

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion. Votes: 0

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. Votes: 0

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. Votes: 0

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. Votes: 0

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. Votes: 0

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. Votes: 0

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. Votes: 0

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered. Votes: 0

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers Votes: 0

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Votes: 0

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. Votes: 0

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable. Votes: 0

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Votes: 0

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers. Votes: 0

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Votes: 0

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. Votes: 0

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. Votes: 0

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. Votes: 0

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. Votes: 0

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions. Votes: 0

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. Votes: 0

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. Votes: 0

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. Votes: 0

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs. Votes: 0

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. Votes: 0

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. Votes: 0

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts. Votes: 0

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. Votes: 0

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for. Votes: 0

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. Votes: 0

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Votes: 0

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. Votes: 0

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. Votes: 0

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. Votes: 0

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. Votes: 0

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. Votes: 0

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers. Votes: 0

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. Votes: 0

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Votes: 0

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Votes: 0

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country... Votes: 0

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. Votes: 0

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. Votes: 0

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers. Votes: 0

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Votes: 0

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. Votes: 0

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. Votes: 0

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Votes: 0

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. Votes: 0

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. Votes: 0

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Votes: 0

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth. Votes: 0

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity. Votes: 0

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. Votes: 0

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. Votes: 0

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. Votes: 0

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. Votes: 0

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. Votes: 0

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. Votes: 0

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers Votes: 0

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... Votes: 0

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. Votes: 0

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. Votes: 0

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Votes: 0

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. Votes: 0

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. Votes: 0

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Votes: 0

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. Votes: 0

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. Votes: 0

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. Votes: 0

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. Votes: 0

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. Votes: 0

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Votes: 0

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. Votes: 0

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. Votes: 0

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. Votes: 0

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Votes: 0

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. Votes: 0

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. Votes: 0

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. Votes: 0

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. Votes: 0

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. Votes: 0

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. Votes: 0

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. Votes: 0

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. Votes: 0

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. Votes: 0

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Votes: 0

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? Votes: 0

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. Votes: 0

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. Votes: 0

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. Votes: 0

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. Votes: 0

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Votes: 0

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. Votes: 0

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Votes: 0

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? Votes: 0

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Votes: 0

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. Votes: 0

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems. Votes: 0

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. Votes: 0

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. Votes: 0

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. Votes: 0

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. Votes: 0

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. Votes: 0

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. Votes: 0

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. Votes: 0

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... Votes: 0

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. Votes: 0

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. Votes: 0

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. Votes: 0

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage Votes: 0

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Votes: 0

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? Votes: 0

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! Votes: 0

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. Votes: 0

The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. Votes: 0

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. Votes: 0

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. Votes: 0

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. Votes: 0

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers. Votes: 0

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. Votes: 0

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! Votes: 0

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Votes: 0

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. Votes: 0

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Votes: 0

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Votes: 0

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. Votes: 0

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. Votes: 0

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? Votes: 0

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. Votes: 0

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? Votes: 0

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. Votes: 0

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. Votes: 0

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. Votes: 0

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. Votes: 0

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. Votes: 0

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. Votes: 0

Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. Votes: 0

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. Votes: 0

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. Votes: 0

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. Votes: 0

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. Votes: 0

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. Votes: 0

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. Votes: 0

Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. Votes: 0

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. Votes: 0

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. Votes: 0

Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. Votes: 0

In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual. Votes: 0

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. Votes: 0

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Votes: 0

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Votes: 0

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. Votes: 0

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology. Votes: 0

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. Votes: 0

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'. Votes: 0

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. Votes: 0

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. Votes: 0

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. Votes: 0

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. Votes: 0

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . Votes: 0

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever. Votes: 0

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. Votes: 0

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Votes: 0

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. Votes: 0

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. Votes: 0

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. Votes: 0

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. Votes: 0

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. Votes: 0

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile. Votes: 0

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. Votes: 0

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. Votes: 0

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything. Votes: 0

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. Votes: 0

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such. Votes: 0

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Votes: 0

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists. Votes: 0

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. Votes: 0

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. Votes: 0

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. Votes: 0

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil Votes: 0

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. Votes: 0

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way. Votes: 0

The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. Votes: 0

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. Votes: 0

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth. Votes: 0

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. Votes: 0

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy. Votes: 0

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to. Votes: 0

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. Votes: 0

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea. Votes: 0

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them? Votes: 0

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software. Votes: 0

Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most. Votes: 0

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning. Votes: 0

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. Votes: 0

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.... Votes: 0

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. Votes: 0

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act. Votes: 0

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses. Votes: 0

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. Votes: 0

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought. Votes: 0

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. Votes: 0

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. Votes: 0

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge. Votes: 0

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. Votes: 0

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically. Votes: 0

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas. Votes: 0

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself. Votes: 0

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. Votes: 0

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them. Votes: 0

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers. Votes: 0

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. Votes: 0

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths. Votes: 0

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Votes: 0

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight. Votes: 0

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. Votes: 0

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers. Votes: 0

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it. Votes: 0

Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous. Votes: 0

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act. Votes: 0

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites. Votes: 0

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers. Votes: 0

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. Votes: 0

[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. Votes: 0

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. Votes: 0

People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy! Votes: 0

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. Votes: 0

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them. Votes: 0

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it. Votes: 0

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. Votes: 0

The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong. In ethics, the choice is between two rights Votes: 0

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. Votes: 0

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures. Votes: 0

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. Votes: 0

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. Votes: 0

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. Votes: 0

These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present." The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries" Votes: 0

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. Votes: 0

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies. Votes: 0

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. Votes: 0

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous. Votes: 0

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries. Votes: 0

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. Votes: 0

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. Votes: 0

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies. Votes: 0

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals. Votes: 0

Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon. Votes: 0

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things. Votes: 0

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter. Votes: 0

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others. Votes: 0

Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in nature except where there are animal minds and bodies. Votes: 0

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all. Votes: 0

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries. Votes: 0

Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize. Votes: 0

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. Votes: 0

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair. Votes: 0

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life. Votes: 0

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. Votes: 0

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning. Votes: 0

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Votes: 0

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!! Votes: 0

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction. Votes: 0

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. Votes: 0

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. Votes: 0

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be. Votes: 0

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics. Votes: 0

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine. Votes: 0

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. Votes: 0

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed. Votes: 0

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence. Votes: 0

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics. Votes: 0

Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not. Votes: 0

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells. Votes: 0

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. Votes: 0

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future. Votes: 0

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. Votes: 0

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. Votes: 0

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not. Votes: 0

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. Votes: 0

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy. Votes: 0

Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the world, into two parties;-the philosophers and the scientists. Votes: 0

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions. Votes: 0

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about. Votes: 0

The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be. Votes: 0

You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized. Votes: 0

This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers. Votes: 0

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license. Votes: 0

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell. Votes: 0

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license. Votes: 0

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. Votes: 0

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. Votes: 0

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. Votes: 0

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped. Votes: 0

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and] also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in general. Votes: 0

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers Votes: 0

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them. Votes: 0

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed. Votes: 0

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us. Votes: 0

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired. Votes: 0

Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent. Votes: 0

When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness...Denial of evil is a word of Truth. Votes: 0

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world. Votes: 0

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us. Votes: 0

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . . Votes: 0