Century Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks…

— Abraham Kaplan

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some…

— Dugald Stewert

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life…

— Cornel West

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

— William James

“Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a little too…

— John D. Caputo

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon Being,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West