#philosopher

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. ↗

— William James

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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