Academic Quote by Simon Critchley

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

— Stanley Cavell

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is…

— Samuel R. Delany

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the…

— Criss Jami

Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just…

— Martha Nussbaum

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

— Timothy Leary

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet.…

— Daniel Dennett

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully…

— Iris Murdoch