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Cicero1 quote
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. — Cicero · 44 BCEpictetus1 quote
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolution; unerring decisions. — Epictetus · 108Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1908Isaac Newton1 quote
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton · 1664John Churton Collins1 quote
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins · 1900Oliver Goldsmith1 quote
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817Socrates1 quote
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils. — Socrates · 375 BCW.V.O. Quine1 quote
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference. — W.V.O. Quine · 1981