Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev 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
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
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
When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could,… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I… — C. D. Broad 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
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or… — Edwin Way Teale 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
“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 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
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then… — Vitruvius Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to… — Beatrice James Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform… — John Searle Copy Share Image
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