(198 quotes found)
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
“Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.”
Anthony Daniels
“A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly, they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.”
Bertrand Russell
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection”
Anais Nin
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone”
Benjamin Franklin
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