--- title: "Best Robert C. Solomon Quotes" description: "American philosopher (1942–2007). Browse 48 Robert C. Solomon quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-c-solomon-79588.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-c-solomon-79588.jpg) # Robert C. Solomon (1942–2007) Philosopher United States **48** quotes in **297** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Robert C. Solomon was a philosopher from the United States, best known for *Introducing philosophy*. ## Quick Facts About Robert C. Solomon Born September 14, 1942 Died January 2, 2007 Nationality United States Profession Philosopher Notable works Introducing philosophy ## About Robert C. Solomon Robert Charles Solomon was a philosopher and business ethicist, notable author, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held a named chair and taught for more than 30 years, authoring The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life (1976) and more than 45 other books and editions. Critical of the narrow focus of Anglo-American analytic philosophy, which he thought denied human nature and abdicated the important questions of life, he instead wrote analytically in response to the continental discourses of phenomenology and existentialism, on sex and love, on business ethics, and on other topics to which he brought an Aristotelian perspective on virtue ethics. He also wrote A Short History of Philosophy and others with his wife, Kathleen Higgins. ## Quotes by Robert C. Solomon · Page 2 > [“Teaching philosophy isn't what I do. Teaching philosophy is, sort of, what I am.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/teaching-philosophy-isn-t-what-i-do-teaching-philosophy-is-sort-of/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf4/robert-c-solomon-13743_education_teaching-philosophy-isn-t-what-i-do-teac_2907411.jpg) > [There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/there-has-been-talk-in-europe-about-american-hegemony-being-somehow/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71a/robert-c-solomon-13743_connections_there-has-been-talk-in-europe-about-amer_1695047.jpg) > [Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/spirituality-can-be-severed-from-both-vicious-sectarianism-and/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a2/robert-c-solomon-13743_banality_spirituality-can-be-severed-from-both-vi_28872.jpg) > [True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/true-trust-necessarily-carries-with-it-uncertainties-but-we-must/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/robert-c-solomon-13743_carrie_true-trust-necessarily-carries-with-it-u_1861947.jpg) > [Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/back-in-those-days-in-the-fifties-and-sixties-countries-had-balance/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Balance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/636/robert-c-solomon-13743_balance_back-in-those-days-in-the-fifties-and-si_47106.jpg) > [So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/so-if-the-euro-if-euroland-is-to-become-a-reserve-center-if-the-euro/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Balance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/robert-c-solomon-13743_balance_so-if-the-euro-if-euroland-is-to-become_2169166.jpg) > [To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/to-the-extent-that-the-united-states-has-i-don-t-like-the-word/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da3/robert-c-solomon-13743_any_to-the-extent-that-the-united-states-has_852349.jpg) > [Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-solomon/another-question-has-been-raised-rather-widely-in-europe-in-japan-as/) [Robert C. Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/) [Currency](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/currency/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/robert-c-solomon-13743_currency_another-question-has-been-raised-rather_1727269.jpg) ## Robert C. Solomon by topic [Trust (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trust/robert-c-solomon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-solomon/#itemlist", "name": "Robert C. Solomon Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Teaching philosophy isn't what I do. Teaching philosophy is, sort of, what I am.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert C. 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