Quotes with philosophers

  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  • The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
  • Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Bertrand Russell Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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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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  • Frederick the Great If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Abigail Adams If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • James Weldon Johnson Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
    James Weldon Johnson
     
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  • Harry Mathews Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Wallace Stevens Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charles Dickens Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Joseph Roux Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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