Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is different from science and from mathematics. Unlike science it doesn't rely on experiments or observation, but only on thought. And… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“To expose the roots of liberal democracy in ethinic conflict is an act of destruction that is necessary to lay the foundations… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ” — Sharon Esther Lampert Copy Share Image
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
“Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark cellar at midnight looking for a black cat that isn't there. He is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
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