#philosopher

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#each #hours #know #other #philosophers

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#make #philosophers #poets #us #women

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#every #logic #philosopher #picture #pure

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#generally #philosophers #politicians #try

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#philosophy #time #true

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet. ↗

— James Payn

#been #body #considered #either #far

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#call #game #invention #philosophers #turn