Philosopher Quotes - Page 5

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.