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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. -- Criss Jami
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. -- Antonio Machado
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That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. -- Tucker Carlson
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. -- Christopher McDougall
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. -- Jacques Maritain
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books? -- J. Arthur Thomson
I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers. -- Marilyn Manson
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. -- Karl Jaspers
I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine. -- Don King
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. -- James Payn
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller. -- Erskine Caldwell
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. -- Hu Shih
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times. -- Jennifer Weiner
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell. -- A.C. Grayling
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. -- Mortimer Adler
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to! -- Mo Rocca
Good comedians are great philosophers. -- Reggie Watts
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! -- Philibert Joseph Roux
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. -- Denis Diderot
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... -- Robert Henri
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. -- Jonathan Swift
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. -- Emanuel Lasker
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. -- David Ben-Gurion
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself. -- Tim Crane
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. -- Thomas Sydenham
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. -- T. S. Eliot

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