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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Metaphysics
Gaston Bachelard

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ambrose Bierce

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Marcus T. Cicero

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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Charles Dickens

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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Philosophers and Philosophy
Diogenes of Sinope

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Science and Scientists
Albert Einstein

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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Money
Benjamin Franklin

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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Scholars and Scholarship
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Work
James Weldon Johnson

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Walter Lippmann

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
H. L. Mencken

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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Blaise Pascal

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Proverb

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Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
Debt
G. Randolf

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Philosophers and Philosophy
Joseph Roux

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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William Shakespeare

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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens

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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Mothers
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Philosophers and Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun