Classic professor quotes

Modern Philosophy (AP):

Those people you call your parents are just “Zzzzzzt!”
That’s a representation of a whirlpool… ignore that. It’s not useable.
That’s the “He just does” argument.
He was born, he lived, he died. What more do you want to know? He wrote a few things… made a few friends… had a few adventures….
You can’t lick democracy, see what it tastes like….
Do mites have eyebrows which could have even smaller mites in them?
That’s a pretty profound joke, if you ask me. Of course, I say that within the limits of my profundity.
I retract that remark that I didn’t even make.
It’s evil to study mathematics.
This is the way I like to summarize Hume’s philosophy: “Shit happens.”
By observing a magnet, you’re not going to know its attraction. Well, maybe you would find it visually appealing… if that’s your thing.
Student: “I know you love to test us on things we haven’t discussed.” AP: “No, I don’t. It pains me deeply.”
“Seven plus two equals five. No… seven plus five equals twelve. I haven’t taken math in a while.”
I would think one of you hippies would have been in a sensory-deprivation tank.
We don’t know nothing….
We can’t ask questions about the noumena. Take it back!
Ask ten people, you’ll get twelve definitions.
Now that does not justify your LSD-taking as a philosophical experiment….
Kant’s a bitch, isn’t he? …Don’t quote me on that.

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