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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Good Marriage Wife You

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Dreams Wife Dreamer Idiot

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Teacher Blessed Truth School

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Feeling Philosophy Wonder Begins

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

God Yourself You Truth

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

Women Tea News Gossip

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

Hurt Feelings Who Use

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

Women Waiting Fame Still

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Way Philosophy Wonder Being

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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

A. P. Martinich

Good Philosophy Said Half

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Hate Thinking Real Some

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

Strange Said Cannot Anything

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

Man Home Travel Curiosity

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education Yourself You Creative

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing Some Said Absurd

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Desiderius Erasmus

You Think Shadows Know

Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.

Flag Progress Country Strange

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

Science Man Poor

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Future Value Problem True

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Benjamin Franklin

Love God Knowledge Man

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good Art Dance Service

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

Benjamin Franklin

You Stone Know How

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Strange Nothing Said Been

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Business India World Posing

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

God Sin Moral Against

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