Jonathan Krohn Quotes

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

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

A Socrates in every classroom.

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

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

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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.

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

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

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

I like debating policy.

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.