Chairs Quote by Dylan Moran

“Let's drop the philosophy!”

— Anton Chekhov

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that…

— Roald Dahl

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson

“Did you party too much and drop out?” “No, I got a philosophy degree.”

— Bobby Adair

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

— Rene Daumal

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a…

— Criss Jami

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already…

— Joseph Mitchell

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley

“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they…

— Jostein Gaarder

One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is…

— Julie Anne Long