Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two wrongs' create an additional problem. 'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse. 'Two rights' create a solution.” — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
“Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional… — Michael S. Greve Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The Obama doctrine of ignoring international issues and claiming it's none of the U.S.' business is a philosophy that has allowed Russia,… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Fantastic answer by a philosopher to a question asked at the BBC...Define Birthday?? Answer:The only day in your life,when u cried and… — Ur My Destiny Copy Share Image
“You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy,… — soumeet lanka Copy Share Image
“My mind feels in philosophical form. My heart thinks in poetic verse. My soul loses everything in translation.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it… — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The study of the form is the betting man's philology, philosophy, science, and literary criticism all rolled into one.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
