The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts… — Sarah McCarry Copy Share Image
The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A privilege to live in conflict with one’s times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years,… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
“And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
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