Philosopher Quotes - Page 10

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

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

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

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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.

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

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.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

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.

The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

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.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

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.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

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