A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

The world is in trouble because of a few funny sympathetic philosophers

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet...

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about...

A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear.

A good philosopher is a brilliant photographer.

Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself. Life is too short for you to judge, persecute, hurt yourself. The battle is not yours but the Lord. 2 chronicles 20:15. Leave everything...

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything...

You cannot have a millionaire dream. With R 10.00 work ethic. R7.20 dedication. R3.50 belief. R6.64 mentality. R8.30 commitment R2.00 mindset. R4.03 Level of thinking. R0. 59 hard work. And R23.00 effort and think that...

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty—He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously...

Nothing is impossible . Its just that it has not been done yet. maybe its waiting for you to do it. Thats why its not done yet. So stop sitting and not doing anything. On...

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics … would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Dans ce monde fort confus, il y a quelques prescriptions assez claires, dit le philosophe. J’ai pour métier de soigner.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing...

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew:...

I like my writing career and it’s progression, I’d rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness...

Dont forget , There is greatness in all of us and no one is greater than the rest of us.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

Divine is supernatural.

I don’t consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is...

the problem in today’s society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

I may not know your life problems or situation. But one thing I know. There are things that you should be thankful for. Its important that you learn to say Thank you.Learn to say thank...

Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms...

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.”~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

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

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

work”.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.