If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.
Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
