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«The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
killed, philosopher, philosophers, priest, priests, The Philosopher
«The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Simplicity
| Keywords:
distrust, guiding, motto, philosopher, simplicity
«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, brute, cynic, disagreeable, everyone else, nitpicker, philosopher, scholar, soldier, The Philosopher, The Soldier
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
philosopher, relieve, struggling
«The man of science is a poor philosopher.»
«The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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believes, bricks, brick in, building, built, destroyed, discovers, material, nonetheless, philosopher, philosophy, possess, posterity, that is to say, The Brick, The Building, The Philosopher, used
«Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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arguing, jackass, Jackasses, largely, philosopher, philosophers, proves
«Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.»
«There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
absurd, express, philosopher
«There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
contradict, philosopher, philosophers, relied
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