"Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age."
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"Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it."
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"Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth."
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"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
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"According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat"
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"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher."
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"The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?"
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"This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin."
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"Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman."
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"Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy."
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"Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism."
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"Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment."
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"To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically."
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"A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher."
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"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it."
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"You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs."
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"Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers."
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"Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder."
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