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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.


Walter Mosley


#black #i #least #none #philosophers

Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.


Daniel C. Dennett


#philosophers #freedom

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.


Samuel Beckett


#poets #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.


Mortimer J. Adler


#children #curiosity #knowledge #philosophers #philosophy

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven.


Virchand Raghavji Gandhi


#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.


Miguel de Unamuno


#life

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

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

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.


Samuel Beckett


#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.


Malcolm De Chazal


#make #philosophers #poets #us #women






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