“ There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. ”
- St. Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ What every genuine philosopher craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"! ”
- William James- Copy
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“ When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man. That I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i… ”
- Ludwig Feuerbach- Copy
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“ If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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 Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ”
- R.W. Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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