#philosophers

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. ↗

— John Churton Collins

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ↗

— Moliere

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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