Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla , as long as possible, firstly because she did not want… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the… — William James Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“We become philosophical when our inherited understanding can no longer account for our experience and we are forced to create for ourselves… — James P. Danaher Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been… — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
“…philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization…but if professors can truly wield this fatal power,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution… — David E. Wilkins Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
![“Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/07c/ang-lee-2496_book_only-one-time-in-my-career-i-had-that-fe_1972320.jpg)
