“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Christ... did not come on earth to be a conqueror or a philosopher, or a mere teacher of morality. He came to… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young,… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It has only been very slowly that scientific method, which seeks to reach principles inductively from observations of particular facts, has replaced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“At your happiest and best, you’re a free spirit, a cheerful wanderer, an honest and intelligent companion, and a philosopher who likes… — Rae Orion Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it. The philosopher dies sententiously--the pharisee ostentatiously--the simple-hearted humbly--the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
