Deals Quote by Tariq Ramadan

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

— Gilles Deleuze

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

— William Vogt

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

“There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

— William James

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

— George Lakoff

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

— Paul DePodesta

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

— Philip Kitcher

“The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty