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“Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?”

Littles Said Book Science Knowledge Philosopher Mathematician More Knowledge Great Philosophers

Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume

Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume

“Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.”

Said Philosophy Wonder Affection Philosopher

Book:The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis

Source: The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis

“It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.”

Source: Killosophy

“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.”

People Thinking Men Way Wells Said Theory Becoming Doctors Patient Philosopher Refuge Well Said Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.”

Men Said Sound Wise Wonderful Heard Speech Philosopher Arguing Trumpets

Author:Plutarch

“Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.”

Kind Has Beens Said Philosophy Movement Ignorance Taught Becoming Relation Absolutes Philosopher Work Out

Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

“Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.”

Thinking Said Poet Comfort Empty Philosopher Great Poet

Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!”

Wells Said Results Existence Conditions Produce Philosopher Quantum

Author:Richard P. Feynman