Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a small extent, mainly because I say things that most French writers would probably hesitate to say for fear of offending someone or upsetting public sensibilities. I don't think that answers the question, but I'm not much good at figuring readers out or I would probably be writing bestsellers.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

I've found a very good friend and a philosopher in Trivikram.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

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

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

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

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

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

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you are going to move the flow of food in a part of the world and not another part of the world. And certainly now, with the way the country is polarized and all that, you wouldn't want to have a French menu, with a French thing - you'd be crucified! Or anything like that. You have to be a real American and apple pie and this and that.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new geopolitical place. But in the Middle East and the Gulf, you can find German, French and British goods everywhere. German relations to these states are very good, as are English and French relations. Does this make them Arab-oriented?

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before."

I stay away from sweets. I'll treat myself here and there, but I'll stay away from fried foods, but I love French fries. I'll treat myself once a week to some French fries.

It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose their heads. I can't really understand the whole thing - but it makes me laugh. It's such a cliche to think all French girls are well dressed, elegant, sophisticated and sexy. Some are utter slobs, I promise you that.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments