Philosopher Quotations
Philosopher Quotes from:
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Henry David Thoreau
- Plato
- Terry Pratchett
- Bertrand Russell
- Albert Einstein
- Epictetus
- Richard P Feynman
- Voltaire
- Ambrose Bierce
- Blaise Pascal
- Daniel Dennett
- George Santayana
- Jacques Maritain
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Morris Raphael Cohen
- Mortimer Adler
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Giving Up Quotes
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.
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Kings Quotes
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.