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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn’t able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing... although writing isn’t exactly idleness. There’s an enormous tension between indolence and languor (Philosopher Quotes)
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading (Philosopher Quotes)
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it (Philosopher Quotes)
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else (Philosopher Quotes)
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn (Philosopher Quotes)
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding (Philosopher Quotes)
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events (Philosopher Quotes)
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man’s perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man (Philosopher Quotes)
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants (Philosopher Quotes)
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world (Philosopher Quotes)
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds (Philosopher Quotes)
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light (Philosopher Quotes)
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all (Philosopher Quotes)
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin (Philosopher Quotes)
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world (Philosopher Quotes)
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself (Philosopher Quotes)
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism (Philosopher Quotes)
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me (Philosopher Quotes)
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness (Philosopher Quotes)
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance? (Philosopher Quotes)
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 (Philosopher Quotes)
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship (Philosopher Quotes)
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children! (Philosopher Quotes)
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time (Philosopher Quotes)
The critic... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three (Philosopher Quotes)
I’m the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I’m the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment (Philosopher Quotes)
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! (Philosopher Quotes)
Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian (Philosopher Quotes)
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax (Philosopher Quotes)
Here’s one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life (Philosopher Quotes)