Now he who wonders and is perplexed feels that he is ignorant (thus the myth-lover is in a sense a philosopher, since myths are composed of wonders).
—ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics, BOOK I
Let the fish philosophise the ice away from the Rivers in winter time.
—JOHN KEATS, Letters (1819)
… these unwholsome vapours, that distempered the Aer, to the very raising of Storms and tempests; upon which a Philosopher might amply discourse.
—JOHN EVELYN,
Fumifugium; or, the Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated (1661)