#philosopher

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. ↗

— Sun Ra

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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#love #often #philosophers #women

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

#philosopher #reflect

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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