Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

My idea of a perfect breakfast would be French toast with sausages and tea.

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

If I could eat French fries every day of my life, I would.

French football must go as far as possible in the Champions League.

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

I have always loved languages, I have studied basic French and Japanese too.

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon .

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

I love the French philosophy that everything starts with great-looking skin.

In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is a spiritual force coming down from God making something happen in front of you.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

I adored 'The Young Ones,' then I grew into 'French and Saunders' and Victoria Wood.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies.

The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.