When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad,… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there,… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A Small But Very Meaningful Thought Said By A Philosopher Nothing Is Interesting In Life. If You Are Not Interested. — Babloo Copy Share Image
Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him. — Christopher Markus Copy Share Image
“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)” — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
