Philosophers

Famous quotes containing the word philosophers:

“Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

“When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)