And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will DurantTags: truth knowledge philosophy philosopher
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
Criss JamiTags: humor thinking philosophy funny thought philosopher comedy teaching leadership authority funny-but-true comedian sense-of-humor reversal taught challenging rethinking reverse challenging-authority comedic reconsideration deeper-thought
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.
Amanda HockingTags: philosopher
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Giacomo CasanovaTags: philosophy philosopher
If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
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The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosopher interpretation the-will-to-power transpose
My ship came in,then it sank!
Brian T. ShirleyTags: humor philosophy philosopher comedian
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
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A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those in mapping out a plan of living and putting himself under rule; for he would do more with the ten well-arranged years than with the whole thirty if he spent them at random. There is much truth in that saying. A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has not
learned to take aim.
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