Quotes About Philosopher King

#1. Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant.

Daniel Peter Buckley

#2. Within this quadrilateral of forces, Jefferson was to emerge as the republican equivalent of a philosopher king, who was coldly willing to sacrifice all principles and all allegiances to the one great aim of making America permanent.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. To become a successful philosopher king, it is much better to start as a king than as a philosopher,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Tell me - everything." So he did. About the hellfire, and the Wyrdhounds, and Lorcan. And then the past three days, of organizing and healing and Lysandra scaring the living shit out of everyone by shifting into a ghost leopard anytime one of Dorian's courtiers stepped out of line. When

Sarah J. Maas

#5. All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Henri Bergson

#6. I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

Pol Pot

#7. Help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow.

Rikki M. Dyson

#8. He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#9. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. Inequality is the root of social evil.

Pope Francis

#11. The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Jon Krakauer

#12. Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

Johnny Thunders

#13. The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.

Alexandre Dumas

#15. An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Pope John Paul II

#16. You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Andy Serkis

#17. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Thomas More