Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else. " That's a hopeless gig.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. . . . Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. ' Well, they don't!
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.