#phil

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#ask #could #game #i #keep

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#diplomat #dull #experimental #financier #i

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#beauty #become #just #otherwise #philosophy

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

#cats #i #infinitely #many #philosophers

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#carry #drumming #feel #i #just

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#live #philosophy #replaced #which #world

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#learn #philosophy #political #them #tools