“The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.” KnowsWorldFirstsLongPhilosophyTodayUsedKnow HowWeekLateLong TimeBlindSwearBlindnessDeafHumiliatedDeafnessMontesquieu Author:Lord Chesterfield
“In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.” ThinkingBelieveLongPhilosophyProblemJusticeInterestingEventsLong TimeDon't BelieveWork OutInstantTruth And Justice Author:Mario Bunge
“It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.” YearsLongPhilosophyDreamKidsTakenCrazyStageLong TimeYears AgoLondonCheerfulnessProzacRitalin Author:Leonard Cohen
“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?” ThinkingLongStatesPhilosophySchoolFourReadyMajorsLong TimeUniversalUniversityEightyLong Time AgoSystematicBrooks Author:Richard Meltzer
“For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.” YearsLongTwoIdeasDifferentPhilosophyLastsLong TimeHundredAreasStartingRealmsInquiryContinuumScience And Philosophy Author:Brad Warner
“June [Hillary] had been doing all these things - the Himalayas and all the rest of it - so we had done things together for a long time, and, particularly as far as our Sherpas were concerned, we had a very sound, I think, philosophy. So that made it very easy for us to agree on what should be done.” ThinkingShouldLongMadeDonePhilosophyTogetherEasySoundLong TimeConcernedAgreeMade ItJuneHimalayasSherpas Author:Edmund Hillary