“A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.” ShouldWellsStillsPhilosophyWholeUseFallIllPhilosopherFacultyNeglectJudgedLiableFrailtyEccentricityDevotee Author:John Grier Hibben
“Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.” MatterProblemFallDealsAtheismArgumentEarsPhilosophicalPhilosopherFavorsI Have LearnedIgnoredDeafAbsentDeaf Ears Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
“Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.” IfsMenSeemsFallPassionWishBlameFaultsPhilosopherVicesPious Author:Baruch Spinoza