Art Quote by Philip Kitcher Download Open image “I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.” — Philip Kitcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Believe Contribution I believe Indispensable Learning Understanding
The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They… — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful. — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at… — John D. Rockefeller III Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
