Philosopher quotes
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"When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers."
"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring."
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."
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"The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence."
"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
"The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations."
"Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists."
"Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers."
"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."
"...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage"
"This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth."
"No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be."
"Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul."
"As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it."
"Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies."
"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question."
"Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age."
"Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it."
"Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth."
"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
"According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat"
