--- title: "9 Philosophical thinking Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Philosophical thinking quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Philosophical thinking sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg" --- > [Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-violence-to-one-s-settled-mind/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg) > [It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-lee-boggs/it-takes-time-for-change-to-take-place-but-then-when-huge-changes-are/) [Grace Lee Boggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-lee-boggs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/753/grace-lee-boggs-7776_change_it-takes-time-for-change-to-take-place-b_2153814.png) > [Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-marmysz/despite-its-successes-in-the-end-philosophical-thinking-always-falls/) [John Marmysz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-marmysz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/john-marmysz-56143_despite_despite-its-successes-in-the-end-philoso_1107800.jpg) > [There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/there-are-signs-these-days-that-the-cultural-hegemony-of/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/david-harvey-10654_architect_there-are-signs-these-days-that-the-cult_1171856.png) > [Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-gutting/teaching-plato-in-palestine-shows-how-philosophical-thinking-can/) [Gary Gutting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-gutting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/gary-gutting-62121_action_teaching-plato-in-palestine-shows-how-ph_432471.jpg) > [“Ultimately Russell himself admitted that he made his greatest efforts in the field of traditional philosophy – in epistemology, the search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strathern/ultimately-russell-himself-admitted-that-he-made-his-greatest-efforts/) [Paul Strathern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strathern/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17c/paul-strathern-60104_epistemology_ultimately-russell-himself-admitted-that_3018813.jpg) > [“Good innovators typically think very big and they think very small. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nate-silver/good-innovators-typically-think-very-big-and-they-think-very-small/) [Nate Silver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nate-silver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/nate-silver-3166_philosophical-thinki_good-innovators-typically-think-very-big_3193845.jpg) > [“Starting from the source of vibrant Consciousness, the first two tattvas of Shaivism are (1) Shiva tattva and (2) Shakti tattva. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/balajinnatha-pandita/starting-from-the-source-of-vibrant-consciousness-the-first-two/) [Balajinnatha Pandita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/balajinnatha-pandita/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e9/balajinnatha-pandita-24889_kashmir-shaivism_starting-from-the-source-of-vibrant-cons_2414751.jpg) > [ “, the core of \[Al-Kindi's\] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-enterprise-was-centered-in-the/) [Dimitri Gutas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dimitri-gutas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophical-thinking/#itemlist", "name": "Philosophical thinking Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rebecca Goldstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-violence-to-one-s-settled-mind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.” — Rebecca Goldstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It takes time for change to take place. 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How can we be certain that what we claim to know is true? Where lies the certainty in our experience of the world? Can even the most precise knowledge – such as mathematics – be said to rest on any sure logical foundation? These were the questions that Russell sought to answer during the periods of his most profound philosophical thinking. 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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look. And they are sometimes found when you are doing your most abstract and philosophical thinking, considering why the world is the way that it is and whether there might be an alternative to the dominant paradigm. 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This focus explains the fragmentary nature of the translations from Proclus and Plotinus that he commissioned, just as it explains his philosophical eclecticism: he was interested primarily in the question of the One or God as the first principle and in all the issues – methodological, metaphysical, cosmological – related to that concept; he was, accordingly, fashioning his own approach from the disjecta membra of Greek philosophy available in the written (but not living) tradition. This is why his philosophical thinking does not belong to a school tradition, why it does not rest on preexisting translations of Greek philosophical works, and why it is an original creation, in Arabic, of the intellectualism of early Abbasid society.41”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dimitri Gutas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-enterprise-was-centered-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/dimitri-gutas-30388_business_the-core-of-al-kindi-s-philosophical-ent_270059.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution…” — Dimitri Gutas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophical-thinking/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophical-thinking/", "name": "Philosophical thinking Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophical-thinking/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/rebecca-goldstein-4026_mind_philosophical-thinking-that-doesn-t-do-v_2263160.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 9 Philosophical thinking quotes by 9 authors. 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