philosopher.

Getting off my tangent, I continued reading and Nietzche stated that Aristotle forgot one possibility - that a person living alone can be both a god and a beast which he called a philosopher.

badger Diary Entry badger 2003

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Archive 2005-02-27 Laban 2005

The first doubts all things in a self-defeating effort to avoid error; a skeptic of this sort, he says, “forfeits the right to be called a philosopher.”

John of Salisbury Guilfoy, Kevin 2005

Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.

Isaiah Berlin at Eighty Brodsky, Joseph 1989

It was, however, in his own country that he became best known as a philosopher.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Seeing that man thus forms an epitome, as it were, of the universe (for spiritual and corporeal substance and accident exhausts the classes of existence in the world), a knowledge of self means a knowledge of everything, and a man who knows all this is worthy of being called a philosopher.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

He wrote with regard to nearly everything, however, and so came to be called the philosopher.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

The Grand Duke is a scholar; a man of refined taste, a patron of the fine arts, a lover of literature, a promoter of science, and what the world would call a philosopher.

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842