"What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!"
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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
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"Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it."
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"What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?"
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"The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment."
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"You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher."
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"I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life."
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"Philosophers are only men in armor after all."
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"A philosopher's a lover of wisdom."
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"For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy."
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"Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never."
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"Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery."
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"Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen."
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"Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves."
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"This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)"
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"It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher."
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"The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems."
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"I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher"
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"The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things."
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"It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact."
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