Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Teach them ethics and martial arts and. . . I don't know. Bravery. Do you think you can teach someone to be brave?” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“One picture puzzle piece Lyin' on the sidewalk, One picture puzzle piece Soakin' in the rain. It might be a button of… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
“It means that when organized philosophies like the Illuminati go out of existence, their symbols remain… available for adoption by other groups.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Journalism has an urgency driven by events that philosophy tends to lack, while philosophy relies on analysis or contemplation that journalists often… — Peter Catapano Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a… — William James Copy Share Image
“Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To listen to the philosophers words one needs an open and discerning mind , otherwise its just gibberish .” — Gerald Lanteigne Copy Share Image
“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.” — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious… — Pamela Sue Martin Copy Share Image
“It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
“In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and… — Kakuzo Okakura Copy Share Image
What would George Clooney do? That's one of my favourites. He is one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies,… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
The attacking philosophy is in the walls of Man United. That's tradition; that's history. That's how we play and want to play. — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ball runs faster than any human, so it’s the ball that has to do the running!’ which, in seventeen words, just… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
“Hegel's philosophy is very difficult—he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
