Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't, isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues, and think what we ought to do about it"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects"

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

"So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher

"The problem of suffering is: Why is there the suffering we know?"

Walter Kaufmann, Philosopher

"It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"Experience by itself is not science"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all"

Hypatia, Philosopher

"Men create the gods in their own image"

Xenophanes, Philosopher

"It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man"

Xenophanes, Philosopher

"Necessity does the work of courage"

Nicholas M. Butler, Philosopher

"Proper names are rigid designators"

Saul Kripke, Philosopher

"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult, which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"Play so that you may be serious"

Anacharsis, Philosopher

"Every man is his own chief enemy"

Anacharsis, Philosopher

"The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial"

Richard Rorty, Philosopher

"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes, or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

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