Intellectual Discourses Participant Pillows

"Tell me, Chuck, is barbarism the natural state of mankind, and will it ultimately triumph?"

The Government's Got Your Back. And Wants Your Front As Well.

"Now that was post-modern sex."

"So, what are you reading?"

"I have good news and bad news about your cat, Dr Schrodinger..."

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

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Science Snobs

'As soon as I mention Nietzsche - stop serving me, okay.'

Hi, I work at the admissions office of the local university. If you could change the world in three days, what would you do?

Woke Jersey Shore

Vladimir Nabokov

"Let's just drop it, Andrew, and leave it to future historians to decide which of us was right."

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

"Certainly. A party of four at seven-thirty in the name of Dr. Jennings. May I ask whether that is an actual medical degree or a Ph.D.?"

'I inherited therefore I am'

'Our next guest is an economist who is the author of the first economic theory that proves that money makes the world go round.'

Professional Couples

'You're a nihilist, eh? — well, at least you have something to believe in.'

"I worry that the king's constant lying and his attacks on our societal norms and institutions is coarsening the civic discourse deemed essential by enlightened people everywhere!"

'I don't think therefore I'm not.'

'The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance, and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever.'

THE UNCANNY PREDICTIONS OF THE GREAT NOWSTRADAMUS, 'A prominent academic will suggest that females may be intrinsically emotionally different from males... and the feminists will become hysterical.

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Since you conduct only thought-experiments, we were hoping you would, from time to time, come up with some thought-results.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Erasmus

'Very clever, Gödel — your theory has a built-in disclaimer!'

"May I remind the faculty that, in the event of a nuclear strike, atom bombs take a gender-neutral pronoun."

"It's an enduring mystery. How did this extinct species combine such huge brains with such jaw dropping stupidity?"

Brains aren't everything - to some people they're nothing.

Academics At the Beach

Truth or dare at the philosophy dept.'s lounge