Philosopher Quotes

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

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.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

I am not a philosopher.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

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.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.