Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

I do think my style is pretty French.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

I can make the best French toast.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Do or do not. There is no try," says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

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.

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire.

I dunno Lloyd, the French are assholes.

French fries and vino are my vices.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

I learned English, French, Italian.

The French complain of everything, and always.

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.

If God exists, there's no way he's French

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

I feel French, beyond the passport.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

The French are so phenomenally, casually chic!

The French make the best wine.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

There's something Vichy about the French.

I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Salad is roughage and a French idea.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Hell, I don't know if he speaks French.

Forte is French… for blanket fort.

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

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

How's this for a headline? 'French fries'.

The French cook; we open tins.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

You know, I'm romantic. I am French!

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

What exactly is a french before it's fried?

There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.