Quotes with philosopher

  • The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
  • I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
  • My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
  • A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
  • ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
  • The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher.
  • No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
  • If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    ― James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare For there has never yet been a philosopher who could endure a toothache patiently.
    Source: Munch Ado about Nothing 5, 1
    ― William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
    ― William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
    ― Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    ― Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    ― Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
    ― Alice Stone Blackwell
     
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  • David Hume Be a philosopher, but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
    ― David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas 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
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
    ― Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
    ― Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bob Rae Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
    Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of
    ― Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Santayana I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
    ― George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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