Habits Quote by Chris Chester

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

— Anonymous

“It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary.…

— Nick Land

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further…

— Edward St. Aubyn

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity…

— Fredric Jameson

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson

“Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.”

— D.E. Navarro

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

— Victor Hugo

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau

“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which…

— David Hume