Motivation Quote by John Campbell

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy…

— Carl Honore

“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right,…

— Jonathan Glover

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Philosophy is about picking up an idea or a combination of ideas, then, like a toddler with its toys - twisting, turning, pulling, arranging,…

— Monaristw

“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”

— Michael J. Sandel

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

“The slow movement is not about doing everything at a snail's pace. Nor is it a Luddite attempt to drag the whole planet back…

— Carl Honoré

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

— Rebecca Solnit

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

— Timothy Leary

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

— Victor Hugo