#philosopher

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#believe #christian #concern #discussion #faith

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ever #great #man #philosopher #poet

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#case #critics #cult #how #know

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#mysteries #philosophers #same #searched #theologians

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #behind #easily #examining #example

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#fond #high #instead #now #offering

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

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