The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.
There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really. . . Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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.
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.