(190 quotes found)
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
Douglas Adams
“For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently”
William Shakespeare
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man”
David Hume
“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
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India”
Ludwig von Schroder
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
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