Nigel Warburton: Quotes about thinking

Nigel Warburton is British author and lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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“Another reason for studying philosophy is that it provides a good way of learning to think more clearly about a wide range of issues.”

Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Some students of philosophy have unreasonably high expectations of the subject. They expect it to provide them with a complete and detailed picture of the human predicament. They think that philosophy will reveal to them the meaning of life, and explain to them every facet of our complex existences. Now, although studying philosophy can illuminate fundamental questions about our lives, it does not provide anything like a complete picture, if indeed there could be such a thing. Studying philosophy isn’t an alternative to studying art, literature, history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, and science.”

Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question.”

Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction