The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.
Nietzsche. . . has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.
We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that celestials have their heads in the clouds or that terrestrials have theirs buried in the ground. The difference between these two types is not so much in their theories but in whether or not they would find it a very sad thing if it turned out that the only way a human is superior to a wolf is this: the human brain is significantly more capacious and complex.
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!
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.