Danger Quote by Anonymous

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, . . . which is treating what is vague as if it were precise…”

— F. P. Ramsey

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Philosophy is the strangest of subjects: it aims at rigour and yet is unable to establish any results; it attempts to deal with the…

— Kit Fine

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its…

— Mark Rowlands

“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The…

— Manly P. Hall

“Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its desire for…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with the aid…

— Emil Cioran

“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity…

— Stephen Batchelor

“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but unnecessary in…

— Anonymous

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment…

— Francis Bacon

“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man…

— Karl Marx