But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and… — William James Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Devil-boy Jack: "A higher power than ours directs us against the wych-kin. There is no turning back." Thaniel Fox: "There is no… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you." That's kind of how… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal 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
“God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
“we live our lives from the "inside", from the vantage point of our own personal mini-cam on life. This gives us privileged… — Gregory Bassham Copy Share Image
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of… — Nelson Rockefeller 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
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
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
