#philosopher

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ↗

— Moliere

#equal #life #lives #living #matter

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. ↗

— Sun Ra

#category #i #minister #philosopher #politician

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#every #guiding #life #motto #natural

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

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#deny #does #exist #exists #explain

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#became #been #fame #i #keenly