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
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay… — Peter Bayne 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
“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
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
“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
“Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
“Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
They say that everything is derived of star dust -- We are the universe simply exploring itself. It's a peculiar thing really,… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied. — Mihai Eminescu Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.” — George Watsky Copy Share Image
