“While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.” PersonsEndsPhilosophyHandsSeemsGuyConversationWaveCardsInstanceBitesDensePlaying Cards Author:Anton Chekhov
“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.” PeopleFirstsHardPhilosophyEvilDifficultSilenceTalkingProduceConversationDiseaseCuresRemedyInabilityTalkative Book:Plutarch's Complete Works Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.” PhilosophySchoolLinesTeachSubjectsDisciplineConversationHigh SchoolUniversityEstablishmentIdealistConductingElitistCompulsory Author:Michel Onfray
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.” PeopleWantSaidIdeasPhilosophyCoursesTermGenerationsConditionsEffectsConversationSpeechEarsSurrenderDestroyingConquestUnconditionalChristmas Eve Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.” PeopleKnowsPhilosophyIssuesLife PhilosophyEvolutionConversationComedianBallparks Author:Marc Maron
“My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.” PhilosophyConversationPhonesLoser Author:Scott Adams
“The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.” MenWayMindBelieveIdeasPhilosophyMomentsDecisionReadyLife PhilosophyConversationNotionDinnerTongueSurfaceFashionableExpediencyDinner Conversation Author:Eric Johnston
“While I do not agree with all of the claims made by experimental philosophers, especially those who seem to think xphi will somehow replace the rest of philosophy, I think xphi projects are interesting and important, I love Josh Knobe's work, and that these projects contribute something new and worthwhile to the philosophical conversation.” ThinkingMadeImportantPhilosophySeemsInterestingConversationProjectsClaimsPhilosophicalAgreePhilosopherSomething NewWorthwhileJosh Author:L.A. Paul
“After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos. A very sensitive mathematics don recommended that I talk to the historian of astronomy, Michael Hoskin, and the conversation led me to enroll in the History and Philosophy of Science for my final undergraduate year.” YearsTwoPhilosophyProblemStudyClearConversationMathematicsFinalsAstronomyMathematicalBoredSensitiveTwo YearsHistorianRegimesProblem SolvingPhilosophy Of ScienceCambridgeUndergraduate Author:Philip Kitcher
“The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.” ThinkingPhilosophyConversation Author:Philip Kitcher