Philosopher

Famous quotes containing the word philosopher:

“No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The philosopher caught in the nets of language.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)