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Philosophical Quotes

George Santayana quote: "Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers..."
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. George Santayana
Daniel Dennett quote: "Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination..."
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. Daniel Dennett
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves. Carter G. Woodson
Max Lucado quote: "Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a..."
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. Max Lucado
Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow? Noam Chomsky
Karl Marx quote: "Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is..."
Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it, Karl Marx
Albert Einstein quote: "Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll......."
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Albert Einstein
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly..."
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE? Alphonse de Lamartine
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
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing Konrad Lorenz
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. Tom Robbins
Bob Dylan quote: "Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me."
Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me. Bob Dylan
[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help. John Calvin
......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them? Isaiah Berlin

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