Germany Quote by George Santayana

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was…

— Pierre Hadot

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose…

— Alain de Botton

“University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought,…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities.…

— John Henry Newman

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time…

— Plato

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the…

— Epictetus

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just…

— Martha Nussbaum

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

— Jostein Gaarder

“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an…

— Roger Kimball

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius