Top Philosopher Quotes

  • The introduction of the word -˜intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument. – Alasdair MacIntyre

    The introduction of the word -˜intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.– Alasdair MacIntyre

  • The apparent facts, if you like. I’m not a philosopher. We lawyers don’t deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances. – Ross Macdonald

    The apparent facts, if you like. I’m not a philosopher. We lawyers don’t deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.– Ross Macdonald

  • I am the philosophy before any philosopher. – J Limbu

    I am the philosophy before any philosopher.– J Limbu

  • Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen. – John Tyndall

    Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.– John Tyndall

  • To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn’t have to know. – Joseph Epstein

    The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn’t have to know.– Joseph Epstein

  • There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics. – Peter J Boettke

    There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.– Peter J Boettke

  • Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. – David Hume

    Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.– David Hume

  • The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. – William Barrett

    The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.– William Barrett

  • Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act. – Jerry A Fodor

    Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.– Jerry A Fodor