#philosopher

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. ↗

— George Savile

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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 impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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I am not a philosopher. ↗

— Hans Bethe

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The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone. ↗

— Paul Celan

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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. ↗

— Diogenes

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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. ↗

— Aulus Gellius

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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. ↗

— Catherine the Great

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