Philosopher Quotes - Page 10

• I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Worry, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!

  Marjorie Grene

  Stupid, Believe, Intuition

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world.

  Sam Keen

  Children, Mystical Experiences, World

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Philosophy, Winning

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• In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.

  Galileo Galilei

  Moving, Earth, Belief

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• In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.

  Hermann Goring

  Taken, Men, Iron

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• When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.

  Brenda Laurel

  Artist, People, Everyday

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press

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• It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wise, Strong, People

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• Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

  Ken Goldberg

  Perfection, Unattainable, Standards

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• Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion

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• No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Stones, Golden, Constitution

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.295

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• Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

  Socrates

  Good Woman, Rest Of Your Life

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• Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Feelings, Problem

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

  Hans Eysenck

  Impact, Important, Anomalies

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• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  Aloysius Martinich

  Philosophy, Half, Grammar

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• Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Data, Construction, Given

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

  Ian Hacking

  Legends, Armchairs, Accustomed

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pilots

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Race, Ideas

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• The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

  R. S. Thomas

  Men, Knowing, Waste

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• As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religious, Rational, Explanation

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• Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

  Ted Alexandro

  Comedian, Opinion, Thinker

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

  Patti Smith

  Running, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.spin.com

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