A Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1864 - December 31, 1936

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Lord Chesterfield

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

George Bernard Shaw

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Israel Shenker

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

Stefan Zweig

The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now.

Francis Schaeffer

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Laurence J. Peter

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Francis Schaeffer

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Otto Weininger

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'