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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
~great philosopher sayings by G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955
For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by George E. Wilson
Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
~philosopher quotes by Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
~famous quotes about Science by Charles Peirce
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
~philosopher sayings by Lord Chesterfield
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
~great philosopher sayings by Robert Zend
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~inspirational sayings about Appearance quotes by Jonathan Swift
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
~philosopher quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
~famous quotes about Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
~philosopher sayings by Patrick F. McManus
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
~great philosopher sayings by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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.
~inspirational sayings about Philosophy quotes by Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
~philosopher quotes by George Berkeley
I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
~famous quotes about Writing by D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938
But the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact - which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...
~philosopher sayings by T.H. Huxley, Biogenesis and Abiogenesis, The Royal Society President's Address to the Meeting of the
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers
~great philosopher sayings by Anthony Robbins
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
~good sayings about Animal Rights by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
~philosopher quotes by Garrett Hardin
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by Buddha
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~philosopher sayings by Barbara Jordan
To feel brave and cheerful, act brave and cheerful. Feeling will follow.
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If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
~good sayings about Music by Anonymous
Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets.
~philosopher quotes by Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by Arthur Rubinstein
I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger.
~philosopher sayings by Author Unknown
All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.
~great philosopher sayings by Author Unknown
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~good sayings about Gifts by Jean Anouilh
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
~philosopher quotes by Dave Barry
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~motivational quotes about Kindness sayings by Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
~philosopher sayings by H.L. Mencken
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
~great philosopher sayings by Jack Penn
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
~good sayings about Optimism Pessimism by Mark Twain
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
~philosopher quotes by Elbert Hubbard
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
~motivational quotes about Technology sayings by John Stuart Mill
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
~philosopher sayings by Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
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