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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.Collection: Philosopher
Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.Collection: Philosopher
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.Collection: Philosopher
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.Collection: Philosopher
I am not a philosopher.Collection: Philosopher
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.Collection: Philosopher
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.Collection: Philosopher
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!Collection: Philosopher
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.Collection: Philosopher
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.Collection: Philosopher
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experimentsCollection: Philosopher
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.Collection: Philosopher
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.Collection: Philosopher
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.Collection: Philosopher
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.Collection: Philosopher
To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.Collection: Philosopher
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.Collection: Philosopher
God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.Collection: Philosopher
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.Collection: Philosopher
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.Collection: Philosopher
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.Collection: Philosopher
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.Collection: Philosopher
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?Collection: Philosopher
When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.Collection: Philosopher
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)Collection: Philosopher
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.Collection: Philosopher
I'm not a philosopher.Collection: Philosopher
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Collection: Philosopher
Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?Collection: Philosopher
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.Collection: Philosopher
A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!Collection: Philosopher
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.Collection: Philosopher
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.Collection: Philosopher
I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.Collection: Philosopher
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.Collection: Philosopher
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.Collection: Philosopher
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.Collection: Philosopher
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.Collection: Philosopher
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.Collection: Philosopher
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.Collection: Philosopher
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.Collection: Philosopher
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.Collection: Philosopher
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.Collection: Philosopher