To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“How many more Christs, Buddhas, Tolstoys, Kings, Naskars have to rise, for humanity to have the revelation that, humanism is the greatest… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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