Philosopher Quotes - Page 12

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

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

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

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

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.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.

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

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

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

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

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.

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

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

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.