21360 | Unobservant thinkers tend to dogmatise using insufficient facts [Aristotle] |
2845 | Free and great-souled men do not keep asking "what is the use of it?" [Aristotle] |
1767 | Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius] |
22758 | Philosophy aims at a happy life, through argument and discussion [Epicurus] |
20867 | True philosophising is not memorising ideas, but living by them [Stoic school, by Stobaeus] |
13293 | What philosophy offers humanity is guidance [Seneca] |
13317 | Philosophy aims at happiness [Seneca] |
20876 | Philosophy investigates the causes of disagreements, and seeks a standard for settling them [Epictetus] |
23269 | Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen] |
22101 | Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas] |
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
21970 | Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte] |
19442 | I don't study Plato for his own sake; the primary aim is always understanding [Feuerbach] |
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
23027 | Ideals and metaphysics are practical, not imaginative or speculative [Green,TH, by Muirhead] |
19228 | Sciences concern existence, but philosophy also concerns potential existence [Peirce] |
2930 | The main aim of philosophy must be to determine the order of rank among values [Nietzsche] |
14885 | The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche] |
14887 | You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche] |
23025 | Philosophers should be more inductive, and test results by their conclusions, not their self-evidence [Russell] |
18005 | Philosophy aims to become more disciplined about categories [Ryle] |
21845 | Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze] |
2352 | The job of the philosopher is to distinguish facts about the world from conventions [Putnam] |
20962 | Habermas seems to make philosophy more democratic [Habermas, by Bowie] |
19066 | Philosophy aims to understand the world, through ordinary experience and science [Dummett] |
16281 | Honesty requires philosophical theories we can commit to with our ordinary commonsense [Lewis] |
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
8242 | Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari] |
9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |
18559 | Philosophy is empty if it does not in some way depend on matters of fact [Machery] |
23531 | Philosophers should interpret the world, by expressing its possibilities [Berardi] |