Joyce Brothers Quotes

Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Nature is neutral.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Philosophy is for the few.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.