My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Steven Pinker

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Moliere

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
Robert Musil

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emile M. Cioran

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund Husserl

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
Frederic William Farrar

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Bryan Magee

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

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

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Morris Raphael Cohen

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
Stokely Carmichael

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Elias Canetti