Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

Peter Frederick Strawsond. 2006
More from Peter Frederick Strawson
Philosophy Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln
  • I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
  • Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — Peter Frederick Strawson
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026