You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing” — Julia Heywood Copy Share Image
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the philosophical equivalent of a fish denying the existence of land because he lacks the means to experience it.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Odd how the impossible negation of death — the sudden absence of life where once there was promise — can stimulate an… — Bruce Duffy Copy Share Image
“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“It's a philosophical minefield!" Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We’re very bold in our proclamations of our own… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson Copy Share Image
“Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“If you only ever look in front, your view will be quite narrow.” — Alison Watts Michiko Aoyama Copy Share Image
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us.” — Richie Singh Copy Share Image
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.” — R.M. ArceJaeger Copy Share Image
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image