Bread Quote by Twinkle Khanna

“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances…

— Jay McInerney

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like…

— Eric Cantona

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

— Rebecca Goldstein

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about…

— Shannon Lee

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

— William James

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

— Anonymous

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue…

— David Roochnik

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

— Rebecca Goldstein