The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers 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.

Plato

Society Describe Grow Reality

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Nancy Astor

Aesthetic Art Call Game

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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Frank Lloyd

Been Body Call Ever

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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Galileo Galilei

Anything Away Become Business

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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Diogenes

Dogs Fewest Good Greatest

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Diogenes

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look

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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens

Value Along More Perhaps

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

Heroes Learned Mean Philosophers

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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

Adult Asking Childish Persist

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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm De Chazal

Women Make Poets Children

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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

Bad Begets Even Evil

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov

Become Core Critics Crucial

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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God Created man Image Bible

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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Richard Dawkins

About Among Argue Critics

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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most mothers Instinctive philosophers

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Let philosophers argue over why life works as it does. Our duty is to focus on how we live it. The choices we make and to be mindful of the consequences of our choices.

Wendy Luhabe

Let philosophers Life work Focus

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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Jacques Derrida

Above Case Critics Cult

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Anton Chekhov

Philosophers Wise men Are indifferent Paralysis

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Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Giordano Bruno

Damage Science Philosophers Divine

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If my ancestors had invented the engagement and wedding rings, by now, we would have become philosophers over the relevance of slave shackles (rings) that have kept a lot women enslaved engaged for years in and out of marriage.

Emeka Amakeze

My ancestors Had invented Engagement Wedding rings

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Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

Max Lucado

Philosophers Meaning Life Lord

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Plato

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Nancy Astor

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Frank Lloyd

Galileo Galilei

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Diogenes

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Diogenes

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm De Chazal

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Richard Dawkins

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let philosophers argue over why life works as it does. Our duty is to focus on how we live it. The choices we make and to be mindful of the consequences of our choices.

Wendy Luhabe

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Jacques Derrida

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Anton Chekhov

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Giordano Bruno

If my ancestors had invented the engagement and wedding rings, by now, we would have become philosophers over the relevance of slave shackles (rings) that have kept a lot women enslaved engaged for years in and out of marriage.

Emeka Amakeze

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

Max Lucado

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