Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The future exists as much as the past - it does not. Why not focus on being? The gift of life, the… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth?… — The Wachowski Brothers Copy Share Image
Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America. — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“despite Frame’s ability to view the holistic character of Van Til’s thought, his preoccupation with linguistic and conceptual units, especially in the… — William D. Dennison Copy Share Image
“What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we… — Gail Sidonie Sobat Copy Share Image
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Life is like a luminous light; consciousness is that luminosity. If someone turns it off, there is only endless darkness, but the… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Everybody tries to find the purpose for their life in hopes thst one more day is justified. But once you truly see,… — MercyMe Copy Share Image
“Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture:… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.” — David A. Beardsley Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Yes, we all die but there's a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike,… — Zeno Copy Share Image
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Dimon was in his best Warren Buffett–inspired investor communication style: full, open disclosure, underscoring the risks involved, but also articulating the philosophy… — Patricia Crisafulli Copy Share Image
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to… — Gary Cox Copy Share Image
