Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable… — S. Joel Garver Copy Share Image
“precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody… — A Gentlemen Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older.… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I tell my team: if we win the ball, I want to see the ball in the goal in eight seconds. That's… — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is like a light bulb. We can dim it or brighten it with the power of awareness, love, compassion, and kindness.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan… — Bano Qudsiyah Copy Share Image
“Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you… — Jeremy Caldwell Copy Share Image
“I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers, So your surroundings become a garden. Don't sow thorns; for they… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and… — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You can not aspire for redemption by asking for your reputation back. Redemption requires action, and a reputation is either defended or… — Leot Felton Copy Share Image
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
