Philosopher Quotes

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

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

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

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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.

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

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.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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.

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

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.

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