Famous quotes containing the words walter, philosopher and/or partial:
“Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread,
Set on my soul an everlasting head.
Then am I ready, like a palmer fit,
To tread those blest paths which before I writ.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.”
—Avrum Stroll (b. 1921)