Quotes by Philosopher The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. Nicole Kidman philosopher greek love 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. Nomy Arpaly philosopher brain writing These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. Noam Chomsky philosopher fashionable people Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly. Oliver Burkeman mills philosopher eye The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin. Oliver Lodge philosopher notion reality To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. Oliver Goldsmith philosopher minutes philosophy Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. philosopher hours two There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Oliver Goldsmith philosopher ridiculous cynical Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him. Paracelsus philosopher astrology stars The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. Patricia Churchland philosopher track consciousness Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit. Patricia Churchland philosopher analysis ends All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! Paul Klee philosopher poet artist But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts. Paul Ormerod philosopher wealth moral Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. Percy Bysshe Shelley philosopher musician age Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy. Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here. Socrates: Where are they? Bertha: In the philosophy department. Socrates: Philosophy is not department. Bertha: Well, we have philosophers. Socrates: Are they dangerous? Bertha: Of course not. Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers. Peter Kreeft bertha philosopher philosophy Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. Peter Singer philosopher ancient self Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. Peter Singer philosopher littles long Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! Philibert Joseph Roux philosopher god philosophy Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. Philip Kitcher philosopher perspective different Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Philip K. Dick philosopher fool men «1213141516171819202122»
