“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.” MenBelieveHas BeensArtIdeasEndsI BelieveImaginationPhilosophicalCreatorShipsConsiderationConfessionTowersInnateInventor Book:The Portable Voltaire Source: The Portable Voltaire
“[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.” IfsWantGivingFactsPoliticalMoralSuccessfulPositionApproachPhilosophicalEverydayArguingLustAppealsCharacteristicsBeing SuccessfulConsiderationDisplaySkepticismEveryday LifeSkepticVanquish Author:Dale Jamieson
“As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them distinct while recognizing their interactions. A valuable contribution to my thinking there and elsewhere was Ellen Meiksins Wood's Mind and Politics, which reinforced for me the ways in which seemingly disparate philosophical endeavors were/are interconnected, and although I have tended to give a certain priority to ethical considerations as part of practical reasoning, I am reminded often enough that this position makes some contentious presumptions .” ThinkingGivingTryingMindEnoughEthicsPhilosophicalValuablePrioritiesTensionConsiderationEthicalElsewherePresumption Author:John Kleinig
“What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” IfsWayLittlesStepsStandingPhilosophicalShouldersGiantsColourConsiderationPlates Author:Isaac Newton
“The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.” IfsThinkingWorldMindProblemDoorsFitPhilosophicalRoundsConsiderationConvinceFlatsWorld Is Round Author:Ted Dekker
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.” Has BeensPhilosophyHonestyHumilityIntegrityPhilosophicalCaringAssumptionConsideration Book:Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing” KnowsInspirationalArtistLearningPhilosophicalPaintConsiderationArt And ArtistsKnowing NothingWoman ArtistPainting ArtPainting And ArtFeminist Art Author:Socrates