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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

Marriage, Good, Happy, Wife, Good Wife

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

Feeling, Philosophy, Wonder, Begins

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, Values, Problem, Prepare

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, Still, Which

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

Hurt, Feelings, Use, Who, Anybody

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

Earth, You, See, Reason, Right, Him

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. Benazir Bhutto

Future, Faith, Age, Tradition, Modern

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

Truth, God, Ignorance, Yourself, Reality

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, Grammar, Said, Half

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

Philosophy, Wonder, Way, Big, Awe, Being

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ring, Never, Like, Part, Discussions

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, Been, Anything, Cannot

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

Meaning, Been, Infinity, Give, Some, He

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. Giacomo Casanova

Future, Faith, Believe, Christian, Know

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

Man, Become, Individual, Only

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. Harry Frankfurt

Wilderness, Unknown, Explore, Every

We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved. Fidel Castro

Thinking, Humanity, Political, Animals

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein

Science, Man, Poor

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

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

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

Know, Stone, You, How, Than, Spend

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, Man, God, Liberty, Say

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

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

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

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

Man, Philosophy, Your, Still

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