#philosopher

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#ask #effectively #instinct #left #means

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#bad #bad one #become #get #good

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#advice #be happy #become #find #get

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beliefs #curious #example #far #for example

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' ↗

— A. P. Martinich

#grammar #half #once #philosopher #philosophy

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. ↗

— Robert Musil

#disposal #into #locking #people #philosophers

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#been #nothing #philosopher #said #strange

There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ↗

— Sharon Esther Lampert

#philosopher #poet #education

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions