#philosopher

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— A. P. Martinich

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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

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

— Rene Descartes

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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#beauty

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

— Sharon Esther Lampert

#philosopher #poet #education