#philosopher

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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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

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

— James Weldon Johnson

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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. ↗

— George Savile

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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ↗