Quotes 41 till 60 of 64.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher.
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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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