Famous Quotes
70 Quotations with Philosophers.
- 1. William James: There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to c ...
- 2. William James: There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, ...
- 3. Charles Richter: According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...
- 11. H. L. Mencken: No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing ...
- 12. Richard Feynman: Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, an ...
- 13. R.W. Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesm ...
- 14. Karl Marx: The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is ...
- 15. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the ...
- 16. Karl Marx: Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
- 17. Epictetus: We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated ...
- 18. Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you oug ...
- 19. Bertrand Russell: A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be o ...
- 20. Friedrich Nietzsche: Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be ...