Academic Quote by Simon Critchley

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching…

— Simon Critchley

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

— Novalis

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when…

— Michael Sandel

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing,…

— Theodor Adorno

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a…

— Ernest Kurtz

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning…

— Ayn Rand

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley