I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors." Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Peter Singer, a moral philosopher and professor at Princeton University points out, however, that there are in fact three freedoms at stake… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny. — Dennis E Adonis Copy Share Image
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“Light the third page from the second and so on, chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
For every philosophical idea about how we're going to do things, there has to be a plan to get there, and we… — Nick Nurse Copy Share Image
“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly… — Anuj Copy Share Image
My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
From a philosophical standpoint, there's certain things I really, really believe in offensively that would probably be broad-stroke things. — Billy Donovan Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
“so Enlightenment philosophers developed a new form of theism, based entirely on reason and Newtonian science, which they called Deism.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman. Even metaphysics… — Sierra Dean Copy Share Image
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image