Quotes About Philosopher

This is what distinguishes the philosopher from the Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.