“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic. — Graca Machel Copy Share Image
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Do not hide, duck or cover when you are asked to give an answer or information that someone is not going to… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
“Do not say that this draft, analogous to the American Constitution, is alien to the European culture and philosophy, and therefore should… — Leo Klinkers Herbet Tombeur Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Initially, she responded by turning inward, pondering questions about the meaning of life and her place in the world. This led her… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The certainty of life is beautiful, but the uncertainty of life is exciting and amazing. It is more exciting to live an… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
“Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams… — Morena Baloyi Copy Share Image
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people… — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Certain things in life require explanation, others are gifts from God that require you to remain amazed.” — Serio Pensa Copy Share Image
“For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.” — Therese Walsh Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Wisdom-loving” translates philosophos. (If I dared, I’d translate it “wannabe-wise” as opposed to sophos, “having smarts,” skillful.)” — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“spent a lot of time on her back, pondering the mystery and vagaries of life. Positional prostitutional philosophy,” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
