"Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind."
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"The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered."
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"Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure."
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"Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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"To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time."
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"In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?"
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"Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?"
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"I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring."
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"All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them."
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"The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all."
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"Good comedians are great philosophers."
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"Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism."
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"I'm not a philosopher."
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"It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."
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"Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics."
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"I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!"
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"Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution."
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"Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours."
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"Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion."
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"I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties."
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