If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
But he (David Hume) was always careless about the offensive application of his principles; forgetting that if there be anything in a set of opinions calculated deeply and permanently to outrage the feelings of mankind, the probability at least is, that they have something about them unsound – that the mass of the public are […]
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possible be alive.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
Democritus was neither the first nor the last thinker to be lost in the flow of the mind. Philosophers have frequently been regarded as being “absentminded,” which of course means not that their minds were lost, but that they had temporarily tuned out of everyday reality to dwell among the symbolic forms of their favorite […]
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
