Branches Quote by Terence McKenna

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what…

— Amanda Palmer

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action…

— Ryan Holiday

Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important…

— Dale Jamieson

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

— Lev Shestov

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

— Paul Gauguin

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But…

— Richard Linklater

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep…

— Martin Heidegger

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to…

— Thomas Malthus

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become…

— Thubten Yeshe

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus