It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
