Instinct Quote by Slavoj Zizek

I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have…

— Philip Kitcher

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell

I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as…

— George Pattison

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean…

— Aaron Belz

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a…

— Terry Gross

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what…

— Elon Musk

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

— Kate DiCamillo

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really…

— Tom Stoppard

“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

— Stephen Hawking

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

— Pankaj Ghemawat