Synonyms for philosophers
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1. List of paraphrases for "philosophers":

   thinkers

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1. Charles Richter:

   According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

2. Thomas Aquinas:

   Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3:

   One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.