“I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingKindPhilosophyAgeChristianityFiguresSonBuddhismHigherYogaIslamMeaning Of LifeTouchedMy SonEasternHigher PowerEastern PhilosophyChristianity And IslamDabblingBuddhism And Christianity Author:Denzel Washington
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.” FirstsPhilosophySeaFiguresPositionPhilosophicalBoatStayingNaturalismVantage PointGroundwork Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.” PhilosophyWholeBigsPoliticalSecretFiguresNewsPropertyLibertarianWorriedFlashPolitical Philosophy Author:John Scalzi
“And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.” WorldMadePhilosophyHandsAttitudeFireFiguresExtremesCampsAcquisitionShamanism Author:Terence McKenna
“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.” IfsFirstsKindPhilosophyAgeYoungPrinciplesFiguresCollegeIllusionUnderstoodMathematicsMathPhysicsSillyEnjoyedYoung AgeRetrospect Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantDifferentPhilosophyShowsFeelingsEasyHurtHuman BeingsPathTeachingFiguresStudentsYears AgoTasksHonestlyI've LearnedClassroomImprovingScopeEasy Tasks Author:Tod Goldberg
“I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.” TryingMindFirstsIdeasPhilosophyCoursesFiguresCollegePhilosopherContemporaryNo IdeaPlatoHume Author:Patricia Churchland
“The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.” ThinkingWayMatterPhilosophyCommonCasesSubjectsFiguresConceptsPhilosophicalMajorityPhilosopherExperimentsTargetInvestigationSubject MatterSkipArmchairs Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.” HumansPhilosophyBeautifulViolenceFiguresGeniusDestructionCriminalsConstructionSublimeMurdererMonstrousMisreading Author:Richard Marshall
“You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.” PeopleTryingFirstsTwoPhilosophyUseEyeCoursesFiguresShotsGolfLikesTwo ThingsGolfersGolf CourseGood Golf Author:Jack Nicklaus
“I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.” ImportantIdeasPhilosophyModernFiguresOriginalsPhilosopherContinental Author:Allen W. Wood