Ben Jonson Quotes

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

That's one thing I learned in my philosophy training - if you're writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

There is something delicious in finding fault with something.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

It's always easy to judge from afar

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

People should always know better.