Top 34 Philosophical Problems Quotes
#1. There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
Victor Pelevin
#2. Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#3. People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.
Simon Blackburn
#4. Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
Karl Popper
#5. The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.
Richard P. Feynman
#6. I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.
Tom Robbins
#7. Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.
Gwen Harwood
#8. Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.
Mario Bunge
#11. I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
Julian Baggini
#12. The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.
E.F. Schumacher
#13. Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.
Helen Foster Snow
#14. Think deeply about life, it's worth it!
Jon Foreman
#15. I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.
Michael Bell
#16. In the eleventh century, a Jerusalem rabbi still recalled with gratitude the mercy God had shown his people when he allowed the "Kingdom of Ishmael" to conquer Palestine.
Karen Armstrong
#17. That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.
Joe Mantegna
#18. Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.
Simon Blackburn
#19. To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
Hakim Bey
#20. Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
Ibn Khaldun
#21. Philosophical questions are so difficult, the problems they raise are so complex, that no one can fairly expect, now, any more than in the past, to win more than a very limited assent.
G.E. Moore
#22. I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#23. We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.
Jonathan Tropper
#25. It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
Annette Bening
#26. In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.
Marty Rubin
#27. I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
David Crosby
#28. Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
Douglas Adams
#30. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#32. No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.
Prince Philip
#33. If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston
Richard Puz
#34. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.
Steven Weinberg
