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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


#been #business #celebrated #despised #most

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


#circumstances #criticisms #distinguish #few #may

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


#conceives #curiosities #his #impulse #journalist

I am not a philosopher.


Hans Bethe


#i #i am #philosopher

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


Paul Celan


#hard #heart #hid #philosopher #still

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


Rene Descartes


#another #anything #been #cannot #conceive

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


Diogenes


#fewest #get #good #greatest #philosophers

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


Aulus Gellius


#cloak #i #i see #philosopher #see

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


#philosopher #says #something #then #trivial

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


#beings #empress #i #i am #i write






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