“For centuries, philosophers have recognized that it is not the objective world that influences us but how we represent and interpret the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am constantly evolving. If I believe in a particular philosophy today, I may have a contradictory opinion tomorrow. — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
“Is it not truly extraordinary to realise that ever since men have walked, no-one has ever asked why they walk, how they… — Tim Ingold Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
“Every theory of social action is ultimately a philosophy of history. It attempts, as best it may, to read in the experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with… — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.” — Nick Shamhart Copy Share Image
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
“Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
“There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of… — Amit Reddy Copy Share Image
![“[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c74/john-calvin-490_darkness_philosophers-are-like-a-traveler-passing_2505358.jpg)
