All Quotes By Tag: Philosopher
“Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem.”
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“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?”
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“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”
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“To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn’t last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.”
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.”
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“Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”
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“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”
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“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
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“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
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“A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. “If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn’t have to live on lentils.”Diogenes replied, “But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn’t have to flatter Dionysus.”
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
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“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
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