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“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and…

— James K.A. Smith

“BEATITUDES My God, this is staggering, Woah! Immense. This epiphany quivers me as I write. How powerful, nonpareil, & superordinary is your Word. The…

— Bright Heaven's

Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in…

— Bas van Fraassen

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark…

— Marc Maron

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I start doing…

— Philip Kitcher

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's…

— William C. Brown

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

— Isaac Asimov

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being,…

— Siri Hustvedt

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears…

— Michel Foucault

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus…

— John Barth

Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can…

— Philip Kitcher

“Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author of some…

— Iris Murdoch

“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr