(242 quotes found)
“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
“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
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.”
Anthony Daniels
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
Daniel Bell
“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
“A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.”
Henry David Thoreau
