Top 1200 French Philosopher Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romanian culture in general. Along with focusing on the literature of the countries the Danube traversed (with an emphasis on Romania), we printed work that interested us from the banks of the Seine: French and French-Romanian authors like Cioran and Fondane. We dedicated our last edition to surrealism and Esthetic Onirisme.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!