Discussion Quote by Jay L. Garfield

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.…

— Harlan Ellison

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

— Edward Abbey

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress.”

— John Mark Reynolds

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

— Jay L. Garfield

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents…

— David Roochnik

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a…

— Timothy Leary

“It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition as he…

— John Gardner

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

— Ayn Rand

I would like to be refered to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger