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Tag Name "Philosopher" (925)

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Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.
Umberto Eco
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Edward de Bono
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I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.
Sheryl Crow
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
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You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.
Cat Stevens
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher for myth is composed of wonder.
Aristotle
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
Victor Hugo
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
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I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.
Andrew Cohen
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Voltaire
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
Andrea Bocelli
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One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into the Negros of a new racism.
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
W. W. Rouse Ball
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens
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