Quotes and Sayings About Philosopher
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
-- A.J. AyerSource : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.
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There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.
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Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
-- Alan Watts -
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Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
-- Albert Camus -
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
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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.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
-- Alexander Pope -
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
-- Allan Bloom -
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.
-- Allan Bloom -
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Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
-- Andre Maurois -
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
-- Anne Carson -
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
-- Anthony BurgessSource : "A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English". Book by Anthony Burgess, October 1992.
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Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
-- Anthony DanielsSource : "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.
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No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
-- Antonio Machado -
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
-- Ariel DurantSource : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
-- Arthur Helps -
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.
-- Averroes -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
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Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a'  terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle