A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cremer's 'Nightshade' is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything.… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
Through it all, the words of John Peel echo strongly within me: you have support the music that's being made now. You… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Symbol sometimes of the Devil,sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Communication is the nucleus of collective behavior, thus creating the occurrence of social change. - Johnny Luckett — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“People spend their lives trying to win. What Remains After Winning is the question almost nobody prepares to answer.” — Alp Şahin Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when… — Michelle Branch Copy Share Image
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against… — William James Copy Share Image
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Nodding your head, saying yeah, yeah and pretending to know things you don't is right up there with one of the worst… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
