By all means marry, if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
philosopherquotes
As the Pre-Socratic philosopher failed to distinguish between the universal and the true, while he placed the particulars of sense under the false and apparent, so appears to identify negation with falsehood, or is unable to distinguish them. The greatest service rendered by him to mental science is the recognition of the communion of classes, which, although based by him on his account of ‘Not-being,’ is independent of it.
falsehood / philosopher / science / true / universal
Like Spinoza, he has a certain kind of moral purity and loftiness, which is very impressive. He is always sincere, never shrill or censorious, invariably concerned to tell the reader, as simply as he can, what he believes to be important. Whatever one may think of him as a theoretical philosopher, it is impossible not to love him as a man. The life of Plotinus is known.
loftiness / philosopher / purity / Spinoza
Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.
Wisdom – seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher – as it seems to us, my friends? – lives ‘unphilosophically’ and ‘unwisely,’ above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life – he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game.
game / philosopher / wisdom
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
What resists phenomenology within us – natural being, the ‘barbarian’ source Schelling spoke of – cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which is not simply the factual absence of future light.
being / light / philosopher
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was. ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly. ‘Quite so.
To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother and uncle are present to the peasant woman, thus Plato, Spinoza, etc. are present to the philosopher. The one has as much reality as the other, but the latter are immortal.
empirical / infinity / knowledge / movement / philosopher
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
philosopher / poet / signifieds / signs