Conversations Quote by Ernest Dimnet Download Open image “All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.” — Ernest Dimnet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conversations Philosophy Serious
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right,… — Jonathan Glover Copy Share Image
To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.” — W. Norris Clarke Copy Share Image
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“I wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look.… — Wale Copy Share Image
“I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what matters most,… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
