(198 quotes found)
“Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“For there was never yet a philosopher - that could endure the toothache patiently”
William Shakespeare
“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”
Albert Einstein
“There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.”
Cicero
“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
“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.”
David Gilmour
“Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
Abraham Lincoln
“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”
Louis Ferdinand Celine
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