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.

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

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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.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society...

Don’t fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you – rjs

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment…. The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and...

You are the best book you could ever write phi

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d’hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of...

That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected with the important process of digestion, seems to have been the general opinion...

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle – a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as...

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.