Horace Bushnell Quotes

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

History should be written as philosophy.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.