Abstract Quote by Herbert Marcuse

“To begin with, philosophy by its nature is an evolving discipline, enriched by the plurality of perspectives that different times and cultures have brought…

— James W. Heisig

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and…

— John Dewey

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

— Peter Kreeft

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

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

“The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been compelled to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the…

— Theodor Adorno

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its…

— Mark Rowlands

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking and specialization,…

— Lin Yutang

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain

“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The…

— Anonymous