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Philosophical Quotes (page 3)

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be. Yevgeny Zamyatin
No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise? Terry Prachett
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. Anthony de Mello
To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother and uncle are present to the peasant woman, thus Plato, Spinoza, etc. are present to the philosopher. The one has as much reality as the other, but the latter are immortal. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good..."
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. George Bernard Shaw
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as... Anton Chekhov
The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas,..."
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. H. L. Mencken
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. Robert Fripp
Denis Diderot quote: "The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the..."
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Denis Diderot
Wallace Stevens quote: "The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet..."
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Wallace Stevens
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato
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. Robert Nozick
Walter Lippmann quote: "When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease..."
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Walter Lippmann

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