Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. — William James Copy Share Image
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.” — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“If all you have is straw for a bed, then make it the best straw bed in the world.” — U K Hero Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“They connected on every level - mental, philosophical, emotional. But she couldn't have him, not all of him.” — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being there even if… — Q. M. Sidd Copy Share Image
“The topic of disinterested, non-calculating, and purposeless love for the sake of love is central to mysticism as such. To love God,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.” — Gerald M. Givens Copy Share Image
“The universe is an illusion, created by consciousness to entertain itself.” — Anje Kruger Copy Share Image
The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds. — Michael Lee-Chin Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
“Stress comes from the fear of the unknown. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
