Cups Quote by Dale Jamieson

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there…

— Paul Fry

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

— Lyman Bryson

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

— Nyogen Senzaki

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

— Pauline Kael

“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

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

— Anonymous

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll…

— Tim LaHaye

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment,…

— Epictetus

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

— Ayn Rand