#philosophers

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#among #argue #critics #disagree #disagreements

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

#case #critics #cult #how #know

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#mysteries #philosophers #same #searched #theologians

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

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

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#fond #high #instead #now #offering