Philosopher Quotes - Page 6

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.