97 Quotes About Philosophers

There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three.

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

The philosopher who denies free will is like an astronomer who denies the stars.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Hmmm!” directed to Fai. “Is there suchthing as an answer, Fai?” he asked, though by his tone, Wolfdon could tell he knew the answer to that, if it were possible.“I would not know, Godric,” Fai replied, a bit more solemn than Godric and Cheng. “For knowing thus, the question would be answered, but without, there is neither subjectivity nor objectivity, just truth from above lisped through ouruncouth tongues. Truth, there is. Answers, I cannot say.

I can work anywhere," said the Muskrat. "It's all a matter of thinking. I sit and think about how unnecessary everything is.""Really?" said Moominpappa, much impressed. "Perhaps I might offer you a glass of wine? Against the cold?""Wine, I am bound to say, is unnecessary," replied the Muskrat, "but a small drop nevertheless would not be unwelcome.

He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. ‘Gentlemen,’ said he, ‘here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

Perhaps most disturbingly for me, when I look upon my own discipline, the discipline of philosophy, I find egregious effects of ideology and propaganda. Philosophy is self-consciously devoted to the ideal of objective truth. Yet philosophers from Aristotle to the present day have justified slavery and racism.