I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
Benjamin Franklin
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
H. L. Mencken
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
Fontenelle
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Stephen Vizinczey
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. An ancient philosopher, expounding his conviction that life is no better than death, was asked by a disciple why, then, he did not die. 'Because,' he replied, 'death is no better than life.' It is longer.
Ambrose Bierce
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to convey the mysteries that have become available to me. I will confuse you. .
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
What is most important is growing sustainable cultures, not building sustainable developments or green buildings. We should be thinking in terms of serving our human community first, ... a philosopher and builder.
John Knott
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Anthony Daniels
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
Ambrose Bierce
A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
During the last months of the German Occupation in 1944, the young man who was to become France's most controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright.
Otto Friedrich
Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks: they're only animals.'
Charles Patterson
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Ariel Durant
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.
Ambrose Bierce
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius
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