Philosophers Quotes

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

- Robert Vaughn

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

- James Weldon Johnson

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

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

- Karl Marx

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

- Steven Levy

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

- Stokely Carmichael

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

- Robert Musil

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

- Robert Musil

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

- Jack Kevorkian

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

- Agnes Mattox

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

- Aidan Kavanagh

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.

- Alan Cook

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

- Alan Goldman

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

- Alan Mattox

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

- Alan Rosen

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

- Alan Vinegrad

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

- Alan Vinegrad

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

- Alberto Lozano

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

- Alex Inglethorpe

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

- Alex Mosson

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

- Alexei Makarkin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

- Alfie Cox

For centuries many of the world`s distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

- Allan Zaremberg

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker`s questions to become comprehensible.

- Allen Hirsch

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

- Allen Hirsch

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

- Allie Zazzali

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

- Allie Zazzali

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

- Al-Qaeda

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

- Alvin Hellerstein

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

- Alvin Hellerstein

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

- Alvin Keels

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

- Alvina Tan

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

- Amanda Zimmerman

I derive nothing whatever from my own nature, nothing from the nature imagined by the philosophers - all comes from God and His decrees.

- Amir Attaran

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.

- Amos Kimunya

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there`s a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

- André Glucksmann

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

- André Glucksmann

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

- Andrei Illarionov

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

- Andrew Clay

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

- Octavio Paz

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek

- Tom Robbins

'¦a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called '˜critical philosophy' and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term '˜philosopher'.

- Alfred Korzybski