I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We are all actors, playing different characters based on our scenarios — Alex Fountain Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“True peace of mind," said this Chinese philosopher, "comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think, it means a release of energy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce… — Stefan Waydenfeld Copy Share Image
“Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Life is what happens while you’re making other plans, they said; so philosophy must guide your attention repeatedly back to the place… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding… — Issac Newton Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image