My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke. ' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.
I'm a slumdog philosopher.
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so. ' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.