The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Do you know how a pearl comes to be?" "Oysters make them, from a bit of sand." "Aiyah. From a bit of… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I dont understand why most of us chose to play it safe all the time. Whether its travelling to a new place,… — Robin Abdullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe and give in to my naiveté, I would like to embrace the fact that I am back… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
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