"The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three."
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"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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"Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!"
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"Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this."
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"It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice."
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"And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them."
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"It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous."
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"A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself."
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"The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor."
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"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought."
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"Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth."
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"Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets."
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"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
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"We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
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"I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers."
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"I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."
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"It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all."
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"Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong."
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"What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions."
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