Top 1200 Great Philosophers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

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.