(198 quotes found)
“Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India”
Ludwig von Schroder
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
Denis Diderot
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
Albert Einstein
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
Daniel Bell
“CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: _Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum_ --"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
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