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“The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.”

Belief Common Stupid Prejudice Philosopher Practicals Common Sense Contests Sydney Conducting Illusory Sagacity

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.”

God Shows Imagine Stupid Philosopher Feminine Theologian Masculine

Author:Marie de Gournay

“Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!”

Believe Stupid Ethics Philosopher Intuition

Author:Marjorie Grene

“Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.”

Stupid Poet Philosopher Foolish

Author:Karl Jaspers

“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.”

People Thinking Trying Believe Care Religious Failing Stupid Atheist Philosopher Communicate Debate Idiot Make Sense Odd

Author:Tim Crane

“The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the world! They put billions into their stupid designs for General Motors, Chrysler, Buick, or who knows what. The designers in America must be frustrated. I am not frustrated, because I am not a designer - I am a philosopher, and all philosophers have said for ages that the world around them is stupid.”

World Age Car Stupid Design Philosopher Designer Frustrated Motor General Motors

Author:Luigi Colani