#philosopher

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#believe #christian #concern #discussion #faith

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #behind #easily #examining #example

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#considered #equally #false #magistrate #modes

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. ↗

— David Hume

#man #philosopher #philosophy #still #your

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#object #philosophers #philosophy #truth #truth is

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image