After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The idea of the individual is actually an ingenious solution to a difficult social-philosophical problem: Should we focus on society as a… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“There can be no such thing as “philosophical horror”, at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a… — John M. Cooper Copy Share Image
Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
“WISE God decides different paths for us, That a single soul to follow. He trains us through our journeys to earth, And… — Dipak Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image