7421 | A philosopher is one who cares about what other people care about [Socrates, by Foucault] |
572 | Philosophy has different powers from dialectic, and a different life from sophistry [Aristotle] |
609 | Philosophy is a kind of science that deals with principles [Aristotle] |
624 | Absolute thinking is the thinking of thinking [Aristotle] |
2666 | Carneades' pinnacles of philosophy are the basis of knowledge (the criterion of truth) and the end of appetite (good) [Carneades, by Cicero] |
23355 | The task of philosophy is to establish standards, as occurs with weights and measures [Epictetus] |
21394 | Philosophy is knowing each logos, how they fit together, and what follows from them [Epictetus] |
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
6207 | What fills me with awe are the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me [Kant] |
21757 | Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel] |
22766 | Philosophy is exploration of the rational [Hegel] |
4171 | Philosophy considers only the universal, in nature as everywhere else [Schopenhauer] |
4186 | Everyone is conscious of all philosophical truths, but philosophers bring them to conceptual awareness [Schopenhauer] |
19456 | Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach] |
5278 | Philosophy is no more than abstractions concerning observations of human historical development [Marx/Engels] |
22864 | Philosophy is the study and criticsm of cultural beliefs, to achieve new possibilities [Dewey] |
5368 | Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent [Russell] |
2512 | Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language [Wittgenstein] |
7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
6870 | I say (contrary to Wittgenstein) that philosophy expresses what we thought we must be silent about [Ansell Pearson on Wittgenstein] |
23881 | All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy [Weil] |
5196 | Philosophy is a department of logic [Ayer] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
21888 | Philosophy is just a linguistic display [Derrida] |
2510 | Traditionally philosophy is an a priori enquiry into general truths about reality [Katz] |
2516 | Most of philosophy begins where science leaves off [Katz] |
12644 | Who cares what 'philosophy' is? Most pre-1950 thought doesn't now count as philosophy [Fodor] |
8217 | Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9778 | There is no dialogue in philosophy [Zizek] |
9218 | Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider] |
15357 | Philosophy is the most general intellectual discipline [Horsten] |