Philosopher Kings Versus Philosopher Presidents

Remember him old philosopher?

Who's your favorite philosopher?

Who's your favorite philosopher?

I wanted to become a philosopher.

A beard doesn't make a philosopher.

The beard does not make the philosopher.

A beard does not make a philosopher.

Wonder is the true character of the philosopher.

As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his book

Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument.

The philosopher Socrates discussed death with his friends in prison.

The nineteenth century philosopher John Stuart Mill had a more civilized view

He was a philosopher he was a drum player he was a teacher par excellence.

Russell was a brilliant philosopher, but even the simplest practical task was quite beyond him.

Find an artist or a writer or, heaven forbid, find a philosopher and talk to them.

But he was, in fact, a moral philosopher, and he was right on why we're moral.

There's a philosopher, Derek Parfit, who said some words that were inspiring to my coauthors and I.

A then unknown philosopher named Adam Smith wrote a book in 1759 called The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

He was a brilliant poet, philosopher, writer, soldier with strategies in battle and conflict that people study even today.

I believe it was one great philosopher said no, no, Cervantes. Cervantes said, The journey is better than the end.

The philosopher Lao Tzu once said, When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

And we get it not from a philosopher of art, not from a postmodern art theorist or a bigwig art critic.

And, since this is coming from a moral philosopher, the fourth would be that it's part of God's plan for the universe.

I myself am a philosopher, and one of our occupational hazards is that people ask us what the meaning of life is.

I am sure that all members know what the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said Ta panta rhei Everything in life is in flux .

Tech guru, like this man that a German magazine called the philosopher of the 21st century they are shaping the way we do things.

It didn't matter what Thomas Hobbes, who was a local philosopher, said about it, you know, because you weren't going to be talking final causes.

Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things .

Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.

BERLIN Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things. He might have added that crisis is their mother.

In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.

As the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has put it, Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass fail. Honor thy father and thy mother admits of gradations.

Now, I'm not a philosopher, so I feel like I shouldn't go into great depth on this but let film speak for itself and take you to this other world.

In fact, an African philosopher wrote to me, when Prosperity Without Growth was published, pointing out the similarities between this view of prosperity and the traditional African concept of ubuntu.

So, for all his distinction as a philosopher of freedom, Hayek deserved to lose his battle with Keynes in the 1930 s. He deserves to lose today s rematch as well.

The philosopher Denis Dutton in his wonderful book The Art Instinct makes the case that, The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation.

Alasdair MacIntyre, the famous philosopher, said that, We have the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, goodness, but we no longer have a system by which to connect them.

Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes concepts that are literally alive.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was not a religious man, but he said, It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.

Destroy that and you destroy the hallmarks of liberal order. As the great political philosopher Karl Popper argued, the only thing that we should not tolerate in an open society is intolerance.

The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog is captivated by a single big idea, which he applies unremittingly.

Clearly, the poet and philosopher Paul Valéry was right The future, like everything else, is no longer what it used to be. But we should not make fun of Marx s well known prediction error.

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days.