Philosophers

Examples

• The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. Plato. The Republic.
• It is only a hostile average-sensual-man background against which the philosophers and poets stand out. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. Plato. The Republic.
• He was not a Plato or an Archimedes, but an efficient officer o f State, conscious of indebtedness to the great scientists and philosophers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Some reg arded the great philosophers as the allies of the Church. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• May it not have been from such considerations that the ancient philosophers supposed a sphere of fire to exist above the air of our atmosphere? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Certainly nobody expects our politicians to become philosophers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This self-taught American, to quote from the Edinburgh Review of 1806, is the most rational, perhaps, of all philosophers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You cannot go to any of the great philosophers even for the outlines of a statecraft which shall be fairly complete, and relevant to American life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And the world if not a believer in the idea cannot be a philosopher, and must therefore be a persecutor of philosophers. Plato. The Republic.
• The Greek philosophers speak with the voice of reason. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nothing is more admirable than the hesitation with which he proposes the solemn text, 'Until kings are philosophers,' etc. Plato. The Republic.
• Looked at in bulk the philosophers can't all be right or all wrong. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is the doctrine of philosophers. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These philosophers are the curious reasoners concerning the material or immaterial substances, in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Both philosophers and the vulgar suppose the first of these to have a distinct continued existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But who can doubt that philosophers should be chosen, if they have the other qualities which are required in a ruler? Plato. The Republic.
• In the language of philosophers, socialism as a living force is a product of the will--a will to beauty, order, neighborliness, not infrequently a will to health. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now are we to maintain that all these and any who have similar tastes, as well as the professors of quite minor arts, are philosophers? Plato. The Republic.
• The philosophers soon reached certain generalizations from this state of affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At the end of the 9th Book the pattern which is in heaven takes the place of the city of philosophers on earth. Plato. The Republic.
• What next---- And philosophers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus the great masses,--earth, a ir, fire, water,--assumed as simple by many philosophers from the earliest times, were resolving in to their constituent parts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Later the traveling teachers, known as the Sophists, began to apply the results and the methods of the natural philosophers to human conduct. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He engaged in a course of electrical experiments with all the ardour and thirst for discovery which characterized the philosophers of that day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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