"If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher."
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"As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith."
"Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)"
"Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers."
"How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory."
"The philosopher is Nature's pilot."
"One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back."
"At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat."
"Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil."
"These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers."
"Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers."
"There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers"
"Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher."
"The philosopher caught in the nets of language."
"A married philosopher is a comic character."
"What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger."
"Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience."
"A married philosopher belongs to comedy."
"[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."
"If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God."