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Philosophers are nor born nor do they die; for once having achieved the realization of immortality, they are immortal....The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.

Quote by Manly Palmer Hall about philosophy, immortality

For there was never yet philosopher.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Quote by Charles Babbage about circumstances

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quote by M. H. Abrams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Quote by Douglas Adams about wife

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about absurd, nothing

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about absurd, nothing

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about nothing

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.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about glory, contempt, praise, books, man

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art

Quote by Paracelsus about imagination, art, magic, work

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about philosophy, time

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous, by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Quote by James Payn about philosophy, poverty, hope

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Quote by Roger Penrose about opinion, common sense, sense, real estate, people

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.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about philosophy

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith about people, curiosity, country, blind, home, man

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about people, man

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.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, essential, history

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about philosophy, earth, reason, rightness, being, things

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

Quote by Kedar Joshi about world, eyes