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“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.”

Made Sometimes Seems Policy Ready Fool Philosopher Desirable

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.”

Heart Views Fool My Heart Ten Rain Philosopher Spares

Author:Marian Hooper Adams

“A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.”

Moral Alive Fool Philosopher Manners Torment

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

“Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.”

Men Giving Doe Ends Money Honest Fool All Things Philosopher Chapters Honest Man Knaves

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.”

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Author:Tucker Carlson

“Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.”

Fool Waste Philosopher Wasting Time

Author:Rex Stout

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.”

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir