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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, Happy, You, Bad

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

Dreams, Wife, Dreamer, Idiot, He, His

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.

Feeling, Philosophy, Wonder, Begins

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

Man, Philosophy, Your, Still

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

Strange, Said, Anything, Been, Cannot

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

Hurt, Feelings, Who, Anybody, Use

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, Truth, Ignorance, Self

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

Science, Man, Poor

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, Over, Old

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, Man, Knowledge, Country, Say

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, Truth, School, Brave, Blessed

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

A. P. Martinich

Good, Philosophy, Said, Half, Grammar

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

Nothing, Strange, Said, Been, Another

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

Think, You, Shadows, Know, Difference

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

Thought, Own, He, Contemporary, His

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Future, Faith, Age, Tradition, Pakistan

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

Want, Who, Poet, Remembered, Peacemaker

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, True, Problem, Values

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, Service, Dance, Wish, Know

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.

Philosophy, Way, Wonder, Big, Because

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

Benjamin Franklin

You, Stone, Know, Get, Than, How

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, I Am, Truth, Ideas, Human, Things

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, New

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

Great, Never, Priest, Many, Priests, Any

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Said, Some, Absurd

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, Been, Which, Still

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