Contemporary Quote by Alain Badiou

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a…

— Francis Schaeffer

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

— Mario Bunge

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

— Anonymous

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing - you…

— Michele Lamy

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks…

— Abraham Kaplan

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact,…

— Anonymous

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

— Plato

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

— H. L. Mencken

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

— Anonymous