"A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style."

Stein, Gertrude on philosophers and philosophy   

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on philosophers and philosophy   

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

Smith, Sydney on philosophers and philosophy   

"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution."

Zend, Robert on philosophers and philosophy   

"The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

Bernstein, Carl on journalism and journalists
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"If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist."

Mailer, Norman on journalism and journalists   

"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse."

Malcolm, Janet on journalism and journalists   

"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."

Marquis, Don on journalism and journalists   

"I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry."

O'Rourke, P. J. on journalism and journalists   

"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

Priestland, Gerald on journalism and journalists   

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

Stoppard, Tom on journalism and journalists
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"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that."

Twain, Mark on journalism and journalists
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"The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself."

White, William Allen on journalism and journalists
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"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists   

"Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling."

Lyall, Gavin on journalism and journalists   

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."

Liebling, A. J. on journalism and journalists   

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

La Fontaine, Jean De on journalism and journalists   

"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."

Bismarck, Otto Von on journalism and journalists   

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on journalism and journalists   

"Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!"

Broun, Heywood on journalism and journalists   

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

Connolly, Cyril on journalism and journalists
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

Duras, Marguerite on journalism and journalists   

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees."

Duras, Marguerite on journalism and journalists   

"It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist."

Geyer, Georgie Anne on journalism and journalists   

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."

Greeley, Horace on journalism and journalists
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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"Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists   

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Zappa, Frank on journalism and journalists
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"The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity."

Luther, Martin on consequences   

"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on philosophers and philosophy   

"Philosophers are only men in armor after all."

Dickens, Charles on philosophers and philosophy   

"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."

Diderot, Denis on philosophers and philosophy
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"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"

Diogenes of Sinope on philosophers and philosophy   

"I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in."

Edwards, Oliver on philosophers and philosophy   

"If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before."

Epictetus on philosophers and philosophy
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"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on philosophers and philosophy   

"The philosopher must station themselves in the middle."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on philosophers and philosophy   

"The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study."

Hegel, Georg on philosophers and philosophy