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The Philosopher
«The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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«The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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«The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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The Philosopher
«The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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