As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The future exists as much as the past - it does not. Why not focus on being? The gift of life, the… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works. — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato Copy Share Image
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
In an argument; Men use reason and never have enough. Women use emotion and always have too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach him to fish he eats for a life time. Take him… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that… — William James Copy Share Image
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken 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 a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of…” quote by Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b6e/lord-chesterfield-757_ailments_it-seems-to-me-that-your-doctor-tronchin_2516424.jpg)
