Greatest Philosopher Quotes

#1. So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Ben Jonson

#3. Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#4. My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was

Mary Shelley

#5. We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#6. Whether you're the best lawyer ...
Or the greatest philosopher ...
There will alway be at least two people that you can never win any argument with ...
Your child ...
And your wife ...
So don't argue with them ...
Just love them ...

Nelson M. Lubao

#7. The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

John Herschel

#9. Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

John Tyndall

#10. He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Socrates

#11. Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

Philip Dodd

#12. My mother was the greatest philosopher. I am nothing but a reflection of her imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#13. A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Blaise Pascal

#15. Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."

J. Frank Dobie

#16. Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

Kedar Joshi

#17. God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Richard M. Nixon

#18. The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.

Roger Scruton

#19. I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

Cannonball Adderley

#20. It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, answered, "Like a human body.")

Peter Kreeft

#21. Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.

Alvin Plantinga