“In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.” WayTryingFirstsPhilosophySchoolThreeWaitingProduceSucceedDrawsThirdsPhilosophicalVictimCaughtFollowingSeedsThinkerThreadSpidersSynthetic Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.” PurposeStupidDesignPhilosophicalIntentionStrikesThinkerCareless Author:David Hume
“I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsMotherOpportunityAliveLuckyEmpathyPhilosophicalFoundationAppreciationCombinationShakesThinkerNew WaysRebelliousShake It UpLucky To Be Alive Author:Adrian Grenier
“Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and it seems to me of great importance that these questions are not just left to scientists, but that there are thinkers who make it their business to think as clearly and slowly about these questions as it is possible to. Great scientists do not always make the best philosophers.” ThinkingRealScientistImportancePhilosophicalPhilosopherThinkerGreat Scientist Author:Tim Crane
“As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she begins identifying what one might called "philosophical friends," - people with whom one could seriously examine our thought about God through listening to each other, reading important and useful books together and trying to think for oneself while familiarizing oneself with the ideas of some of the world's great thinkers. Cultivate openness without gullibility and skepticism without cynicism.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantBookTogetherReadingListeningPhilosophicalOneselfConfusedOpennessThinkerCynicismSkepticismGullibilityGreat Thinkers Author:Jacob Needleman
“I don't think there is ever a direct connection between the philosophical community and the wider populus. I'm very aware of this because I've been working on a book on ideas in global philosophy and you always find some kind of relation between the dominant philosophies in a culture and the folk philosophy but it's not a straight-down dissemination. It's partly bottom-up. Thinkers are the products of the cultures they grew-up in. They aspire to thinking purely objectively and universally, but they are often reflecting ways of thought that are embedded in a culture.” ThinkingKindBookPhilosophyCultureCommunityDirectRelationPhilosophicalThinkerEmbedded Author:Julian Baggini
“Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.” GunPhilosophicalSpeciesPhilosopherLiberalismThinkerHailOrigin Of Species Author:Thomas Huxley