Becoming Quote by Richard Rorty

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

— Bertrand Russell

“Philosophy is thinking in slow motion. It breaks down, describes and assesses moves we ordinarily make at great speed - to do with our…

— John Campbell

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard… let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right,…

— Jonathan Glover

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

— Anthony Pettis

“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners of their…

— David Bentley Hart

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy,…

— Martin Heidegger

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering