Character Quote by Charles Hartshorne

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of…

— Neil Gaiman

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager…

— Walter Pater

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

“… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the…

— Richard Mc Sweeney

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

— Michael Crichton

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

— Marie Lu

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“On the other hand, there is apocalyptic literature, which appears to be continuous with classical prophecy yet to be a particular outgrowth of it.…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the…

— Theodor W. Adorno

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

— James Joyce