“A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers”
Arthur Helps
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
Theophile Gautier
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
Albert Einstein
