“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there… — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
“...philosophers will forever wrangle about the true nature of science as a prelude to their dream of the final knockdown argument which… — Philip Mirowski Copy Share Image
I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll… It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… — Jason Stanley Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Hmmm!” directed to Fai. “Is there such thing as an answer, Fai?” he asked, though by his tone, Wolfdon could tell he… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that… — William James Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson we can draw from this, of course, is that it's best, if at all possible, not to become… — Will Buckingham Copy Share Image
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“It is undesirable that all citizens become soldiers and engage in physical combat. We need philosophers or great thinkers to revolutionize the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death.… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
![“Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been…” quote by Jason Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e68/jason-stanley-92172_action_some-philosophers-are-drawn-to-the-subje_1751308.png)
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