Accepting Quote by John Dewey

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established…

— Herbert Marcuse

“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 idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a whole, or…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into…

— Walter Lippmann

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

— Johan Huizinga

We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or…

— Alain de Botton

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

— Blaise Pascal

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some…

— Dugald Stewert

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

“Historical accounts of philosophy deal with both the chronological development of ideas over time and the timeliness of those ideas in response to the…

— James W. Heisig

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed…

— Noam Chomsky