Ideas Quote by Richard Marshall

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

— Criss Jami

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those…

— Stefan Molyneux

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

— Timothy Leary

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work…

— Tim Crane

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.”

— Veronica Hollinger

I strongly believe that one of the best philosophies of life is to be your own philosopher.

— Anonymous

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

— Bertrand Russell

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

— Philip K. Dick