Communication Quote by William Zinsser

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing to support…

— Immanuel Kant

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?”

— Umberto Eco

“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic:…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Attacking the person instead of the argument is condemned in logic, widespread in physics, and not used nearly enough in humanism.”

— Bauvard

“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want to hold…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Leonard Bernstein

“In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners…

— Ambrose Bierce