Quotes by Philosopher Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. Criss Jami philosopher impact culture To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. Criss Jami sense-of-humor reverse philosopher The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. Cyril Norman Hinshelwood philosopher technology natural Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. Dale Jamieson philosopher unbiased smart Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). Dale Jamieson philosopher lips cups There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head Damon Knight riddle philosopher stones The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Daniel Bell philosopher curiosity moments I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. Daniel Dennett philosopher scientist answers Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. Daniel Dennett philosopher imagination philosophy What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. Daniel Dennett philosopher roles philosophy Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. David Chalmers philosopher psychology interesting The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. David Hume philosopher perception mind Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume philosopher imagination mistake Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. Desiderius Erasmus philosopher affair sound Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. Diogenes philosopher rewards dog When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. Diogenes philosopher men looks You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. Djuna Barnes philosopher pounds men I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig. Don Ihde philosopher art fall There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases. Donald Davidson philosopher giving-up ideas Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Douglas Adams philosopher dreamer idiot «1234567891011»