In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which… — Brad Carson Copy Share Image
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
“Each of us possess a soul, or spirit which occupies our body during life on earth, but abandoning our body on death.… — William Dingwall Copy Share Image
“When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn't happen… — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The status of philosophy is such that it is not the case that you cannot be wrong in philosophy but that it… — Peter Worley Copy Share Image
“Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you,… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
“Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can… — Joe Boot Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image