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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. Socrates

Good, Marriage, Wife, Happy, Bad, You

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

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

Wonder, Feeling, Philosophy, Begins

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

Great, Never, Priest, Priests, Many, Any

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

Good, Philosophy, Said, Grammar, Half

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Nicolaus Copernicus

God, Truth, I Am, Ideas, Human, Judgment

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

Hurt, Feelings, Anybody, Who, Use

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. Thomas Aquinas

Wonder, Philosophy, Way, Awe, Big, Myths

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

Said, Strange, Anything, Cannot, Another

The man of science is a poor philosopher. - Albert Einstein

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, Values, 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, Knowledge, God, Man, Earth, Say

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

Dreams, Wife, Idiot, Dreamer, Thinker

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead

Life, Motto, Simplicity, Seek, Natural

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

Time, Man, Great, Poet, Profound, Same

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

Home, Man, Travel, Curiosity, Blind, Who

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am. Charles Krauthammer

Fear, God, I Am, Believe, Said, Him

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. Moses Mendelssohn

Fear, End, Famous, Debate, Matter, More

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Edward Gibbon

People, World, True, Worship, False

The hero of the 'Peanuts' is Charlie Brown. I play the dog that sleeps on the top of his dog box who's a philosopher. I'm drawn to that. So I'm drawn to Barbossa as I'm drawn to Einstein, because they are outsiders, and I suppose, as a character actor, that's the turf that you're locked into, in a way. Geoffrey Rush

Dog, Hero, Character, Play, You, Way

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, Gossip, News, Old, Over

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, Service, Art, Dance, Wish, Know

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

Know, You, Stone, Get, Than, How

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, Truth, Ignorance, Yourself, Self

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. David Hume

Man, Philosophy, Your, Still

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, Seduce

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

Knowledge, Desire, Pleasure, Being, Take

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