Century Quote by Marvin Minsky

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert…

— Adolf von Harnack

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly…

— Bertrand Russell

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

— Criss Jami

Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which I thought…

— Catherine Wilson

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in…

— Philip Kitcher

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing - you…

— Michele Lamy

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained,…

— Northrop Frye