Philippa Foot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
-- Philippa Foot

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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Philippa Foot famous quotes

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