Community Quote by Kelvin Ogilvie

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

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

— Wilhelm Dilthey

I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the…

— Philip Kitcher

I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have…

— Philip Kitcher

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

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

— Saint Augustine

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

— John Selden

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

Everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live…

— Julian Baggini

Only when each of us practices the live and help live philosophy can we transform unjust systems into a beloved community.

— Al N. Green