There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts But so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats.
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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