Easier Quote by Jacques Derrida

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

— Jacques Derrida

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

— Max Born

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

— Anton Chekhov

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

— George Santayana

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more…

— Konrad Lorenz

“How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!”

— Anton Chekhov

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset