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Philosopher Quotes (page 13)

Douglas Adams quote: "You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands!"
You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands! Douglas Adams
The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts Friedrich Nietzsche
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. ... [I]f you compare it with the creation legends of other peoples--with all these delightful absurdities in which giants to be cut up and floods to be dried up are made to exist before creation--the depth and originality of this Hebrew folk tale will soon be apparent. C. S. Lewis
Henry Miller quote: "Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At..."
Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be. Henry Miller
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist. Colin Wilson
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting. Ray Bradbury
The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall Cormac McCarthy
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point. Terry Prachett
Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out. Wally Lamb
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts... Terry Prachett
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world. Stanislaw Lem
Jonathan Swift quote: "Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. Jonathan Swift
Terry Prachett quote: "In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my..."
In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? Terry Prachett
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. Plato

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