Alexander Pope Quotes

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

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

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.

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

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

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

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

Philosophy changes day by day.

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