As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A man who swears before the world to love a woman till death part him and her is sane neither in the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he… — James Payn Copy Share Image
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“A celebrated philosopher — I think Miss Edgeworth — has broached the consolatory doctrine, that in intellect and disposition all human beings… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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