Jose C. Orozco Quotes

Plato was a bore.

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.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

No philosophical opinion, however ancient, however generally received, ought to rest upon authority. There is no presumption in requiring evidence for it, or in regulating our belief by the evidence we can find.

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

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

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.

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

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.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.