Saturday, March 04, 2006

Annals of academic put-downs

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
-- Marx and Engels

Quote taken from the Slate article on x-phi.

I should put together these put-downs in one post; for the moment, let me just link to the others that I have collected: 1,   2,   3,   4.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:27 PM, March 04, 2006

    Here's another philosophy quote:

    "Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us." (Kierkegaard.)

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