(242 quotes found)
“Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India”
Ludwig von Schroder
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
Felix Adler
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
Buddha
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”
Catherine the Great
“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”
Voltaire
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
