#philosopher

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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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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

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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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We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. ↗

— Steven Levy

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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