Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Objects persist, but their nature remains perpetually open to revision."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Metaphysical questions are practical questions in disguise."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The fundamental is not always the obvious."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The question of what grounds what is as important as the question of what exists."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The whole may be ontologically prior to all its parts."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects depend on properties, but properties also depend on objects."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Time, space, and causation are all up for metaphysical revision."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects are neither illusions nor self-explanatory facts."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The fundamental questions of metaphysics are as alive today as in ancient times."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Philosophy is wondering about the fundamental nature of things."
Kaplan, David
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Kaplan, David
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"Philosophy is not abstract; it is the most practical of all disciplines."
Perry, John
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"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession of it."
Perry, John
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"Language is a mirror of the human mind, revealing our deepest thoughts and limitations."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The study of philosophy teaches us to examine our assumptions and inherited beliefs."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The survival of intellectual culture depends on resistance to conformity and careerism."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Philosophy properly understood is subversive of established authority and power."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The mind constructs reality through linguistic categories and semantic representations."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The semantic triangle connects word, thought, and world in an eternal dance."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Philosophical problems often dissolve when we examine their linguistic roots."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning is neither purely mental nor purely physical, but relational."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The analytic tradition found its voice through rigorous attention to language."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Intentionality bridges the gap between thought and world."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The self is constructed through language and exists only within it."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The pursuit of philosophical truth requires relentless linguistic analysis."
Katz, Jerrold
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"We are condemned to interpret, and interpretation requires language."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language mediates our relationship to everything, including language itself."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language is both the problem and the solution in philosophical inquiry."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Ambiguity in language reflects the ambiguity of human existence."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The question of meaning is the fundamental question of philosophy."
Katz, Jerrold