On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more… — Fr. Augustine Baker Copy Share Image
“You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source:… — Richard Mc Sweeney Copy Share Image
“I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable… — S. Joel Garver Copy Share Image
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
“God is like a search engine — He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.” — R.M. ArceJaeger Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to… — Nathanie Randall Copy Share Image
“If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing… — James McGregor Copy Share Image
“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is… — Goodluck Jonathan Copy Share Image
“Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.” — Mark R. Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation... — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
