#philosopher

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#philosopher #reflect

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#alone #become #comprehensible #discovered #enters

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#individual #man #only #philosopher

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #believes #only #philosopher #stops

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#depth #education #found #mankind #our

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#already #ancient #another #china #early

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#go #more #perhaps #philosophers #than

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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