Character Quote by George Pattison

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really…

— Tom Stoppard

I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have…

— Philip Kitcher

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“You can generally count on a philosopher to ask a question about the question.”

— Kunal K. Das

“Similarly, if we ask "What have philosophers ever done for us?" we get involved in the following dialogue: "Well, their examples help us to…

— Gary L. Hardcastle

No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but…

— Hilary Kornblith

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the…

— Slavoj Zizek

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet.…

— Daniel Dennett

“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

— Chauncey Wright

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell