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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
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
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
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Mortimer Adler
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin 
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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Charles Babbage
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius
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The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.
Paul Celan
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Peter Frederick Strawson
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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