"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!"
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"The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study."
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"Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots"
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"For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
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"I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."
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"We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?""
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"The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism."
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"The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death."
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"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
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"A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers."
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"Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers."
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"This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion."
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"Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek."
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"Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)"
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"It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe."
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"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category."
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"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
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