Quotes by Philosopher There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. Agnes Denes precedence philosopher precedent The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. A.J. Ayer disputes philosopher philosophical In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'. Alain Badiou philosopher views philosophy A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. Alan Watts philosopher intellectual people Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. Alan Watts philosopher failing example Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. Albert Camus philosopher novelists writing This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Albert Einstein philosopher fashion pain This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein philosopher income world This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) Albert Einstein philosopher income form It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein philosopher poor men When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it. Albert Ellis philosopher degrees diaries For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world philosopher evil I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn philosopher ancient discovery And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do. Alexander McCall Smith philosopher opposites way Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. Alexander Pope philosopher friendship philosophy It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Alfred Korzybski influential philosopher mystery Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it. Alfred North Whitehead philosopher The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead philosopher motto simplicity Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously. Allan Bloom philosopher greek forget The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom philosopher economic psychological 1234567891011»