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
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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Oswald Spengler 
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Ambrose Bierce 
Hu Shih 
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope 
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
Sun Ra
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
Giacomo Casanova
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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
Frederick Soddy
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
A. P. Martinich
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