Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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

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.

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.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

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.

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.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

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

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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?

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

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.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.