“The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“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
“Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers”
Arthur Helps
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone”
Benjamin Franklin
“Plotinus was a first rate synthetic philosopher that combined and illustrated the best aspects of prior philosophers and added his own mystic insights. His concepts are consonant with about 70% of Christian divine mechanics interestingly. The idea He had about a river of creation flowing eternally from 'The One' that is 'translated from a realm of forms or intellect into material composition reminds me quite a lot of Jesus' discussion about 'the water of life' from which she would never thirst, as Jesus was God for-himself. It is disappointing that so many have simply been formed within a non-philosophical, purely materialist intellectual criterion that is implicitly biased.”
Gary Gibson
