97 Quotes About Philosophers

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. ~ 22

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Every age has its pseudoproblems created by its fake prophets and pseudo-philosophers.

Funny how every Tom, Dick and Mary wants to save you and you never asked or wanted to be saved.

A Isabel le dolía que Luis fuera filósofo, no por eso sino por el Nene, porque entonces el Nene tenía pretexto para burlarse y decírselo.