REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) often remarked “We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.16” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
“By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A… — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“between mind and world, rather than just a fortuitous and functional liaison forged by evolution—then there are many philosophical questions that the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“By all means, marry, I told him. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one,… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, 'Fortune bids me to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any… — Philippa Foot Copy Share Image
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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