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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#discussions #goes #into #like #never

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#concern #him #himself #occupy #philosopher

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.


Edward Gibbon


#considered #equally #false #magistrate #modes

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.


Oliver Goldsmith


#country #curiosity #goes #guided #himself

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.


Graham Greene


#been #being #human #human being #human relations

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.


David Ben-Gurion


#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.


Stephen Hawking


#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

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


David Hume


#man #philosopher #philosophy #still #your

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.


Edmund Husserl


#fond #high #instead #now #offering

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.


Douglas Adams


#dreamer #his #idiot #philosopher #speculative






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