Philosophers are only men in armour after all. [ Dickens ]
Many talk like philosophers and live like fools. [ Proverb ]
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Conscience is the most enlightened of all philosophers. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Fools and philosophers were made out of the same metal. [ Proverb ]
They that talk like philosophers are often observed to act like fools. [ Proverb ]
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. [ Frederick the Great ]
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. [ W. B. Clulow ]
The natural religion of the pagan philosophers was mixed with fancies and dreams. [ Saurin ]
Philosophers call God the great unknown.
The great misknown
would be more correct. [ Joseph Roux ]
Better eat salt with philosophers of Greece, than eat sugar with courtesans of Italy. [ Proverb ]
That a country may be truly free, the people should be all philosophers, and the rulers all gods. [ Napoleon I ]
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? [ Sir Walter Scott ]
By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. [ Justin ]
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth. [ Sydney Smith ]
Philosophers and men of letters have done more for mankind than Orpheus, Hercules, or Theseus; for it is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian: It is harder to correct than to instruct. [ Voltaire ]