Philosopher Quotes

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 in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

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.

Franz Karl Achard

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.

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

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 yields no heat.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Sharon Esther Lampert

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Philosophers think, creators make!

Stephen Richards

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

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

You are the best book you could ever write phi

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May your eyes be the eyes of truthAnd guided from deception

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Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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.

We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Artists and philosophers must be subversive: we need these rebellious cynics to ask questions, they must resist cultural norms; seek out truths that are not self-evident and challenge everything. Doubt, not blind belief, is essential for discovering truth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Leave me to die a lonely death. An artist’s death. A writer’s playground. A painter’s background. A philosopher’s bread and butter.An endeavor that we all face. I just hope that I’m not the only one there.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind

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Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

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He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs

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It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs

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

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

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Ambition soars and also slithers

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Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

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A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman

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A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

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i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things

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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 out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end, only the truth will survive.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artiﬁce.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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.

Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs

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Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Mary-Jean Harris

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

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Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

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Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.

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

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

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 the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.

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 is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

A. Lee Martinez

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Divine is supernatural.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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