“Courage often comes from the sense of responsibility and duty. Mahatma Gandhi was a kind man of courage. His courage came from… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
“When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When your wife says glass is half empty, don't ever pour philosophy of half empty is half full, just fill her glass… — Adhir Amdavadi Copy Share Image
“Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed… — Jonah Goldberg 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
What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“But among this people there can be no doubt about the rights of women, because, as I have before said, the Gy,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our… — Kerry Stokes Copy Share Image
While we may have very different ideas and core philosophies, at the end of the day, we are all Americans. We do… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Unlike Christianity, the laws and beliefs in Islam and Judaism are derived through a process of reasoning and scholarship; there are no… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
“When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.” — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of… — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“Philosophy and the study of the real world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more… — Fr. Augustine Baker Copy Share Image
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people’s fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image