Quotes tagged ‘Philosophers’

“Brisco County Jr.: Which one of you is Aristotle Poole? Socrates Poole: That's Socrates Poole. Brisco County Jr.: Oh, sorry. I guess that's a common mistake. Socrates Poole: Not at all. Brisco County Jr.: Well, it is if you flunked Greek philosophy two years in a row.”

— David Simkins, Carlton Cuse, Brisco County, Jr., Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“Actually, it is kind of clever how they punish philosophers. Every day, they make them go to school naked, and then they take a test in a class they've never been to. And then they smash them with hammers. And that part is not so clever.”

— Joe Mande, Jen Statsky, Michael, Ted Danson, imdb.com

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's wo…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“My purpose is to set forth a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject. There is, in nature, perhaps nothing older than motion, concerning which the books written by philosophers are neither few nor small; nevertheless I have discovered by experiment some properties of it which are worth…”

— Galileo Galilei,

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For…”

— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.com

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, w…”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”

— William James, theatlantic.com

“I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com

“Philosophers spend a lot of time obsessing about knowledge, wishing they knew more, and worrying that they're wrong about what they think they know.”

— Hank Green, youtube.com