Philosopher Quotes - Page 2

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

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

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

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

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.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

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

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

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

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

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

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.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

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

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

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.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.