The philosophical point of view of the average man - if…

“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but unnecessary in…

— Anonymous

But the truth is the highest consideration.

— Dorothea Dix

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven…

— Ravi Gomatam

Science seems to be at war with itself… Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false. Therefore naive…

— Bertrand Russell

“The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of…

— Bertrand Russell

“No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky,…

— Terry Pratchett

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to…

— Larry Bishop

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but…

— Tim Jackson

“You know who Nicolaus Copernicus is?” “Was,” Walker said. “Some old astronomer. Polish, I think. Proved the earth goes around the sun.” Reacher nodded.…

— Lee Child

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.”

— Fang Chen

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh