#philosophers

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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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

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential

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

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

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

— George Santayana

#expect #much #other #philosophers #severe

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

— Wallace Stevens

#go #more #perhaps #philosophers #than

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

#philosophers #science

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#himself #man #philosophers #question #raise

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory