“Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 105
Intimations of Immortality Stanza 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Five, Christian sources, p. 105
Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 2, Metaphysics and Metaphor, p. 26
As quoted in The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, p. 124
Ockhamist Comments on Strawson, in Anthony Freeman (ed.), Consciousness and its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?, Exteter, 2006, pp. 158-159
Other quotes
“But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.”
XVIII. 328 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“No external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds.”
2014, Address to the United Nations (September 2014)
Context: Now, ultimately, the task of rejecting sectarianism and rejecting extremism is a generational task -- and a task for the people of the Middle East themselves. No external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds. But America will be a respectful and constructive partner. We will neither tolerate terrorist safe havens, nor act as an occupying power. We will take action against threats to our security and our allies, while building an architecture of counterterrorism cooperation. We will increase efforts to lift up those who counter extremist ideologies and who seek to resolve sectarian conflict. And we will expand our programs to support entrepreneurship and civil society, education and youth -- because, ultimately, these investments are the best antidote to violence.
Introductory message at her homepage at the University of California, San Diego http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/presentation.html, 2013