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
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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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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Robert Trout
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Thomas Aquinas
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams
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