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Philosopher Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather…
- What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of…
- Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
- Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d…
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- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
- Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto
- It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind… — Edward de Bono
- It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono
- There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero