Charlie Trotter Quotes

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and work out.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

I am completely Socratic.

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

And seek for truth in the groves of Academy

Do I appear to you to have come to a wrong decision, if I devote that time to philosophy, which I otherwise should have spent at the loom?

We ascend the hill-tops of philosophy, not to gaze up at the ever-visible heavens, but to embrace in one grand view the human world beneath us.

The specious figments of genius, and the erratic flights of philosophy, may excite our wonder, but they cannot stand the ordeal of scrutiny, or the Lydian touch of experiment.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

I definitely would like to go to university.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

To get my master's, obviously that would be something special.