Ancestor Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If…

— Benjamin Franklin

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to…

— Hal Hellman

“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a…

— Jonathan Swift

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other…

— Blaise Pascal

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

— Mortimer Adler

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right…

— Leo Strauss

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

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

— A.J. Ayer

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them…

— Moses Mendelssohn

“The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is, that all the argument is on one side. There are no objections, and no answers…

— John Stuart Mill

The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil,…

— Herbert Marcuse