Sarah Brightman Quotes

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

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 is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy was once considered science.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I love to watch times change!