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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill 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
...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
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
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
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
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever? — Adam Carolla 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
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
