Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.