Quotes by Philosopher Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosopher philosophical desire If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosopher christian jesus On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for. Jerry Fodor philosopher bad-day sometimes Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted. Jerry Saltz philosopher painting stones No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be. Jiddu Krishnamurti philosopher book thinking One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. Jimenez Lai philosopher reason-why world When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann philosopher expected disappointment Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. John Banville philosopher novelists wonderful Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Churton Collins philosopher truth-is philosophy When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it. John Cage philosopher acting can-do A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe great-philosophers scholar philosopher If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it. John Adams philosopher regulation important Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. John Dewey philosopher men philosophy What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. John Keats philosopher delight virtue The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stations philosopher middle Philosophy is nothing but discretion. John Selden discretion philosopher philosophy An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. John W. Gardner philosopher education teacher What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe philosopher language thinking As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives. Jonas Salk philosopher scripture alternatives I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist. Jonathon Keats philosopher scientist design «678910111213141516»
