The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There's no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It's just a shame that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Hey.” [Leo] squeezed her hand, though Hazel sensed nothing romantic in the gesture. “Machines are designed to work.” “Uh, what?” “I figure… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose an auspicious sign for the approach of the new millennium, I would choose this: the sudden nimble… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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