Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Poets are the sense philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

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.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country guided by the blind impulse of curiosity is a vagabond.

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

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

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not you'll become a philosopher.

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.

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

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.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.

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.

I fear that in the end the famous debate among materialists idealists and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

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.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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

I will admit like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

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.'

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

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.