Cases Quote by George Santayana

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in…

— Jerry Fodor

We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or…

— Alain de Botton

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This…

— Alfred Korzybski

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

— Bertrand Russell

“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?”

— Lev Shestov

I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson

“Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything…

— Tomislav S. Šola

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see…

— Simon Critchley