Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features…

“At the most fundamental level, the level that is the most useful for doing insight practices, we wish desperately that there was some separate,…

— Daniel M. Ingram

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence)…

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

A real naturalistic approach, I would claim, should take the reality of mental representation as a natural fact. A lot can be said about…

— Tim Crane

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the…

— Paul Bloom

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

— L.A. Paul

Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in…

— L.A. Paul

Philosopy is an important subject and has it uses, but when it comes to determining the purpose of life, even the Wisest philosophers are…

— Anonymous

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato:…

— Anonymous

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens