Top Philosopher Quotes
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
Arthur Holly Compton
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Mortimer Adler
Anthony Daniels 
Peter Frederick Strawson 
Henry David Thoreau 
Hu Shih 
Denis Diderot 
Plato All Philosopher Quotes
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith 
58% of people like this quote
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
Alice Stone Blackwell
58% of people like this quote
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Jacques Derrida
57% of people like this quote
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
James Payn
56% of people like this quote
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
56% of people like this quote
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach
56% of people like this quote
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
55% of people like this quote
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes
55% of people like this quote
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
55% of people like this quote
Popular Philosopher Authors
Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheBenjamin FranklinAlbert EinsteinMarcus Tullius CiceroAmbrose Bierce PlatoGilbert K. ChestertonBlaise PascalBertrand RussellWilliam JamesKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelJean-Paul SartreSamuel Taylor ColeridgeDenis Diderot
Alfred North WhiteheadLudwig WittgensteinSaint Thomas AquinasDavid HumeDesiderius ErasmusJean Jacques Rousseau SocratesWallace StevensOliver GoldsmithMortimer AdlerGiacomo CasanovaEdward GibbonDouglas AdamsNicolaus CopernicusCharles Babbage
More »