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«The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
killed, philosopher, philosophers, priest, priests, The Philosopher
«The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| Keywords:
commonly, defunct, economist, economists, philosophers, practical, ruled
«So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Horses
| Keywords:
comprehend, horses, philosophers
«The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Philosophy,
World
| Keywords:
interpreted, philosophers, the point, various
«Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
army, Book of Job, Buildings, come in, come in handy, forced, handier, Handy, knife, philosophers, purposeful, redeeming, remote, remotest, stone, Swiss, the Swiss, tools, truthful, turgid
«Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
dogmatist, dogmatists, foundation, handle, insofar, philosophers, Supposing, suspecting
«Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
arguing, jackass, Jackasses, largely, philosopher, philosophers, proves
«There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
days, philosophers, philosophy, professors, The Professor
«There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
call, come into, hands, humanity, in this, In this World, kings, no end, philosophers, philosophy, political, political power, rulers, States, The State of the World, The Troubles, thus, till, troubles, truly, world power
«There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
contradict, philosopher, philosophers, relied
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