I was trained as a political scientist and the profession…

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing…

— Murray Rothbard

“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur…

— Karl Popper

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist…

— Alister E. McGrath

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

“Despite scholasticism or skepticism, skepticism is the confirmation and proof of existence. It follows that if we affirm and confirm the existence, we must,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if…

— Anonymous

Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level of scholasticism…

— Ilkin Santak

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, . . . which is treating what is vague as if it were precise…”

— F. P. Ramsey

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes,…

— Che Guevara

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

— Miguel de Unamuno