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“As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.”

People Way Humans Book Philosophy Courses Europe Presses Be Good Complaining Printing Human Thought Flooding Printing Press

Author:James Gleick

“I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.”

People Knows Kind Doe Done Enough Philosophy Hate Term Modern Needed I Hate Philosopher Complaining All Kinds Ideology Introducing Annoyed Jargon New Words

Author:William H. Gass

“Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?”

Philosophy Complaining Employed Always Complaining

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.”

“Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.”

Philosophy Complaining Dust Kicking

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.”

Ifs Writing Philosophy Mother Sex Imagination Dark Kissing Catholic Screens Complaining

Author:Catherine Brady