Philosopher Quotes - Page 19

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

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

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

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

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

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.

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

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

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

When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

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