Quotes 21 till 40 of 64.
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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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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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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
New Scientist interview -
In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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No gentleman can be a philosopher an no philosopher a gentleman: to the philosopher everything is fluid - even himself.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Pensees (1669) -
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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