I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever a direct connection between the philosophical community and the wider populus. I'm very aware of this… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has… — Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation Copy Share Image
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
“Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is.… — Don Piper with Cecil Murphey Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe;… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“You, too, are more than your worldview. Of course, philosophical arguments have a significant place in the history of the church and… — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that… — Alfred Mele Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
