Kathryn Schulz Quotes

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

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

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

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.

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

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

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

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.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

The Gay Science, section 108

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.