#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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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. ↗

— William James

#hate #necessary #philosopher #real #some

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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

#been #nothing #philosopher #said #strange