I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
Sun Ra

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
James Payn

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
Frederick Soddy

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Ariel Durant

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
Lion Feuchtwanger

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Peter Frederick Strawson

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

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
Karl Jaspers

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