Answers Quote by John D. Caputo

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

— Tom Petty

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“Ordinary philosophy is like a hound hunting his own tail. The more he hunts the farther he has to go, and his nose never…

— Benjamin Paul Blood

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall…

— Frederic Raphael

The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

“The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barn-yard within our horizon, it is belated. That sound commonly reminds us that we are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet