““With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.””
![“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be…” quote by Stanley Cavell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42e/stanley-cavell-33068_ambition_philosophy-is-indeed-outrageous-inherent_1061620.jpg)
![“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ecf/blaise-pascal-167_philosophical_to-ridicule-philosophy-is-truly-philosop_2686509.jpg)
![“Cheaters never prosper, we tell ourselves. But the ape in us knows it's not true. Clumsy, untutored, cheats never prosper. They are discovered and suffer the consequences [...]But what we apes despise is the clumsiness of their effort, the ineptness, the gaucherie. The ape in us does not despise…” quote by Mark Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7e9/mark-rowlands-38789_quote_cheaters-never-prosper-we-tell-ourselves_1205787.jpg)
![“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy." [William Petty]” quote by Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/carl-zimmer-16331_knowledge_i-never-knew-any-man-who-had-once-tasted_1770.jpg)
