--- title: "8 Philosophers Talk Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Philosophers Talk quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Philosophers Talk sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg" --- > [When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-laurel/when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only-amongst-themselves-they/) [Brenda Laurel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-laurel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg) > [When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kwame-anthony-appiah/when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they-often-have-in-mind-having/) [Kwame Anthony Appiah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kwame-anthony-appiah/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/kwame-anthony-appiah-25090_agree_when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they_787075.jpg) > [“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-was-happy-but-happy-is-an-adult-word-you-don-t-have-to-ask-a-child/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/jeanette-winterson-166_children_i-was-happy-but-happy-is-an-adult-word-y_856396.jpg) > [The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-philosophers-talk-to-you-about-the-dignity-of-man-and-they-tempt/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/blaise-pascal-167_despair_the-philosophers-talk-to-you-about-the-d_874427.jpg) > [I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a-tendency-to-present-a-kind-of/) [Hilary Kornblith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-kornblith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/hilary-kornblith-11063_acquisition_i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a_1185529.jpg) > [Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falsehood-people-in-life-talk-about/) [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_consequence_philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falseh_1323052.png) > [The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/the-philosophers-talk-across-the-centuries-exclusively-to-one-another/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c7/rebecca-goldstein-4026_century_the-philosophers-talk-across-the-centuri_3095131.jpg) > [“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to-put-philosophers-and-their-2/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/rebecca-goldstein-4026_first-time_i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to_3180713.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophers-talk/#itemlist", "name": "Philosophers Talk Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brenda Laurel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-laurel/when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only-amongst-themselves-they/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to…” — Brenda Laurel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life, I have learned that reason doesn't change many minds. But there's a more ordinary sense of resonableness, which involves not just logic but a sensitivity to other peoples real concerns, a desire to understand, even when you don't agree. Many people are reasonable in this way.I'm willing to think that the world will be made better by the conversations of reasonable people, even if there are unreasonable people and people who don't want to converse as well.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kwame Anthony Appiah" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kwame-anthony-appiah/when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they-often-have-in-mind-having/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/kwame-anthony-appiah-25090_agree_when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they_787075.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/kwame-anthony-appiah-25090_agree_when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they_787075.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d2/kwame-anthony-appiah-25090_agree_when-philosophers-talk-about-reason-they_787075.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more…” — Kwame Anthony Appiah", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. 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Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilary Kornblith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-kornblith/i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a-tendency-to-present-a-kind-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/hilary-kornblith-11063_acquisition_i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a_1185529.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/hilary-kornblith-11063_acquisition_i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a_1185529.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63a/hilary-kornblith-11063_acquisition_i-argue-is-that-philosophers-have-had-a_1185529.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of…” — Hilary Kornblith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nassim Nicholas Taleb" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falsehood-people-in-life-talk-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_consequence_philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falseh_1323052.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_consequence_philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falseh_1323052.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/383/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_consequence_philosophers-talk-about-truth-and-falseh_1323052.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. 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I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented. ... The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. The subject is far more interesting than that. ... When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification. You have to keep them straight… ...(T)he assessment of those intuitions in terms of the argument's soundness isn't accomplished by work done in the context of discovery. And conversely, one doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life (pp. 160-161).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rebecca Goldstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to-put-philosophers-and-their-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/rebecca-goldstein-4026_first-time_i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to_3180713.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/rebecca-goldstein-4026_first-time_i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to_3180713.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/rebecca-goldstein-4026_first-time_i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to_3180713.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since…” — Rebecca Goldstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophers-talk/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophers-talk/", "name": "Philosophers Talk Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophers-talk/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/brenda-laurel-32791_action_when-artists-and-philosophers-talk-only_669181.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 8 Philosophers Talk quotes by 7 authors. 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