Quotes about philosopher

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.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

My ship came in,then it sank!

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.

Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. ... If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurried by the wind and

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

Your looks will introduce you, but your character and personality will make them to like you,love you and they would want to keep you.

Just think about this: haven’t we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body’s natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side. What are we all really doing? We are moving fr

A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask.

It is wise to know God.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.

We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon's evening glow

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.

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Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Artists and philosophers must be subversive: we need these rebellious cynics to ask questions, they must resist cultural norms; seek out truths that are not self-evident and challenge everything. Doubt, not blind belief, is essential for discovering truth.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs

Ambition soars and also slithers

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Leave me to die a lonely death. An artist’s death. A writer’s playground. A painter’s background. A philosopher’s bread and butter.An endeavor that we all face. I just hope that I’m not the only one there.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up."~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.