Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.” — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.” — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I've learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I've put 'Work… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Christianity had, in Nietzsche’s account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Philosophy always arrives too late to do any such teaching. As the thought of the world, philosophy appears only in the period… — hegel Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theorizing, but instead… — Magnus Vinding Copy Share Image
You're asking me to give insight into my personality or my philosophy of acting. I just don't think that deeply about it.… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Let your infectious smile infect the whole world with love and joy.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion. — Babloo Copy Share Image
“We’re all odd balls; some people are just better at pretending to be even” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“The ego always wants to compete and win, but the spirit always wants to find unity and harmony.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts.” — John Dolan Copy Share Image
“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
