Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.

An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

I was raised like a little soft French kid, if you want to know.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

There's no slowing down but I've got to be honest, I'm probably not going to learn French.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

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

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

If a French woman wears jeans, it's never with flats - always heels.

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.