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philosopher

dad joke

philosophy

monk

person

collective noun

existentialism

light bulb joke

cogito

sweet potato

one-liner

Socrates

philosophy major

resemblance

Karl Marx

Rene Descartes

Arthur Schopenhauer

existence

ontology

reality

is a blind man in a dark night, in a dark house, searching for a black cat which isn't there.

anagoras used to say -and from him comes the proverb -that a philosopher is a blind man in a dark night, in a dark house, searching for a black cat which is not there. (Osho lve (13)

is a commander and a law giver who says 'thus it shall be!' Their 'knowing' is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -will to power.

Actual philosophers. . . are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their ''knowing'' is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -will to power. Are their such philosophers today' Have there been such philosophers' Must there not be such philosophers'Friedrich Nietzsche

If someone asks, 'But what in the end is a philosopher'' I would say 'A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.' Louis Althusser

is a lover of wisdom, but one cannot be a lover of wisdom if wisdom does not love him in return.

then they are not lovers of horses, whom the horses do not love in return... nor lovers of quails, nor of dogs, nor of wine, nor of gymnastic exercises, who have no return of love... no, nor of wisdom, unless wisdom loves them in return. Or shall we say that they do love them, although they are not beloved by them... and that the poet was wrong who sings (Plato 'lysis' .pdf)

is a person who does violence, but has no army at his disposal, and so subjugates the world by locking it into a system.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil

is a true philosopher when he cares not for philosophy.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher. Lord chesterfield

is an adult who persists in asking childish questions.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin

is appreciated to the extent that a reader recognizes that philosopher's concepts all around in one's daily experience.

The measure of the true love for a philosopher is that one recognizes traces of his concepts all around in one's daily experience' (Zizek '2004:a 1)

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