Top 1200 Great Philosophers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to sell their work to journals. They had to sell books to the general public because they could not hold positions in universities. Mill was an atheist, and, therefore, could not hold a position in a university.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.