#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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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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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

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