We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever? — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Fredkin was quoted by Robert Wright in the 1980s as saying, There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? What is… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more… — Gareth B. Matthews Copy Share Image
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works. — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“No other thinker was so well prepared to give new impetus to the philosophical questions of the younger generation. Though many of… — Albert Blumberg Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“There’s a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, ‘How does it feel to be dangled out a window… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image