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21 " I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience. "
― Abhijit Naskar , I Am The Thread: My Mission
22 " The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all. "
― Alexandre Dumas , The Count of Monte Cristo
23 " It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Will to Power
24 " The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations. "
25 " Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and hate and faith and passion.’ I was getting a little embarrassed by your earnestness but you continued, ‘How can someone hope to treat another person’s mind unless they are also a theologian and a philosopher and a poet? "
― Rosamund Lupton , Sister
26 " I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts. "
― Debasish Mridha
27 " Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana , N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
28 " He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out--through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused. Each thing he learned was so simple and obvious, once he grasped it, that he wondered why he had not always known it. And what had he learned? A philosopher would not think it much, perhaps, and yet in a simple human way it was a good deal. Just by living, my making the thousand little daily choices that his whole complex of heredity, environment, and conscious thought, and deep emotion had driven him to make, and by taking the consequences, he had learned that he could not eat his cake and have it, too. He had learned that in spite of his strange body, so much off scale that it had often made him think himself a creature set apart, he was still the son and brother of all men living. He had learned that he could not devour the earth, that he must know and accept his limitations. He realized that much of his torment of the years past had been self-inflicted, and an inevitable part of growing up. And, most important of all for one who had taken so long to grow up, he thought he had learned not to be the slave of his emotions. "
― Thomas Wolfe , You Can't Go Home Again
29 " For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. He professed it, demonstrated it, arguing and quoting, sharing his reading and his reflections, and seeking confirmation from his own observations of the everyday world. His title sets it out clearly: Memoir of the Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier; and so does his subtitle: Clear and Evident Demonstrations of the Vanity and Falsity of All the Religions of the World. The book appeared in 1729, after his death. Meslier had spent the greater part of his life working on it. The history of true atheism had begun. "
― Michel Onfray
30 " When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart "
― Subhan Zein
31 " The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it. "
― Michael Ruse
32 " I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which wasn't there. ‘That may be,’ said the philosopher, ‘but a theologian would have found it. "
― Julian Huxley
33 " Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. "
34 " You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s nevergoing to be anywhere else. You have no ambitions, you don’t give a damn about money, and you’retoo much of a philosopher to have any feeling for art. What am I going to do with you? You needsomeone to look after you, to make sure you have food in your belly and a bit of cash in your pocket.Once I’m gone, you’ll be right back where you started. "
― Paul Auster , Moon Palace
35 " When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both – that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy. In the case of arate, the direction of the " because" can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized. "
36 " Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man. "
37 " One who uses many periods is a philosopher many interrogations a student many exclamations a fanatic. "
38 " To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
39 " God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' "
40 " As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it. "