Philosopher Quotes - Page 4

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

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

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

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

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.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

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

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

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

We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.