When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“If you turn to the right, you will marry, if to the left, you will be killed." A true philosopher never chooses… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a… — William James Copy Share Image
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he… — Plato Copy Share Image
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“The philosopher with his two eyes sees double, so is unable to see the unity of the Truth. ز وحدت ديدن حق شد معطل**دو چشم فلسفي چون بود احول” — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image