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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Alfred Korzybski

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

Abigail Adams

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot

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

Karl Marx

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

William James

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Catherine The Great

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

James Weldon Johnson

The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Chris Ullman

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects...It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Benjamin Rush

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Ambrose Bierce

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm De Chazal

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

Paul Celan

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin