Consideration Quote by Nick Harkaway

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the…

— Slavoj Zizek

“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of this kind…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

— Wallace Stevens

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as…

— George Pattison

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

— Chauncey Wright

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

— Anton Chekhov

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

— Eric Hoffer

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

“The value of a philosopher’s thought is not in its answers—no philosopher has any that are more helpful than saying nothing at all—but in…

— Thomas Ligotti