“A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
European shows are unafraid of investigating philosophical questions on behalf of their characters or elevating imagery or letting moments play out. — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
“I'm not playing!' Sophie retorted indignantly, 'I'm doing a very important philosophical experiment!” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure… — Lex Allen Copy Share Image
“Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and… — Tom Hays Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some people were destined to have a significant other. Some people were destined for greatness. But few others were destined to be… — Chris Söderström Copy Share Image
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
