Philosophers do not believe half the things they tell themselves.
For my part, I have not so bad an opinion of mankind as many of my brother philosophers.
She had courtiers for her lovers, scholars for her friends, and philosophers for her counsellors.
This being remembered, it will be found that his methods do not differ so utterly from those used by other philosophers in like case.
Philosophers less pretentious and more worldly than these have sometimes felt, in their way, the absorbing force of self-consciousness.
Poets have sung of it in their hymns; philosophers have dreamed of it in their Utopias; priests teach it, but only for the spiritual world.
Either from taste, from a desire to instruct herself, from a love of renown, or possibly from all these together, she spent her life with philosophers.
Having these obligations to the Rosicrucians, no lover of poetry can wish, however absurd they were, that such a sect of philosophers had never existed.
Providence seems to have preserved in this immense conservatory the antediluvian plants which the wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously put together again."
We may observe, that in order to prove the ideas of extension and colour not to be innate, philosophers do nothing but shew that they are conveyed by our senses.