Philosopher Quotes

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

I am not a philosopher.