Quotes of: Philosophically Keyword

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Sun Ra

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Karl Jaspers

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

Marc Forne Molne

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

David Hume

A person who thinks about "why" is a philosopher.

Debasish Mridha

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm de Chazal

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private proper...

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rus...

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest ...

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements. On the contrary, the literature of materialism is peculiarly marked by its wholesale profusion of denunciations of all ...

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other...

Bertrand Russell