Philosopher Quotes

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

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

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

~ Emma Goldman

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up.~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

~ Ogden Nash

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.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Harshit Walia

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

~ David Hume

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.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

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

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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.

~ John Tyndall

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

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

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.

~ Aldo Leopold

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.

~ A.p. Sweet

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

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

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.

~ John Tyndall

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

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.

~ H.l. Mencken

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

~ Amit Kalantri

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Sharon Esther Lampert

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

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings, he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Amit Kalantri

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

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

~ John Leslie

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

~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila