philosophical

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. 904

—Whitehead, Alfred North

   It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writeswith a misty profundity, heis talking nonsense.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Il n'y a qu'un proble'  me philosophique vraiment se¤  rieux: c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre ve¤  cue, c'est re¤  pondre a'   la question fondamentale de la philosophie. Thereisbutonetrulyseriousphilosophical problem, and that is suicide.Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

—Camus, Albert

Ein philosophisches Problem hat die Form: 'Ich kenne mich nicht aus'. A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about'.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, theideological, or the abstract.

—Roth, Philip Milton