#philosophers

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#fond #high #instead #now #offering

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#each #hours #know #other #philosophers

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. ↗

— David Chalmers

#become #closely #consciousness #going #i

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#make #philosophers #poets #us #women

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

— John Churton Collins

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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#cannot #disregarded #does #intuition #itself