The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct!… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different… — Lance Burton Copy Share Image
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but… — Frank Close Copy Share Image
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“People are fighting so hard for attention and recognition, rather than fighting for their goals and dreams. They get attention they ask… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“If Madison in the 1780s was a philosopher king, Madison in the 1790s was a formidable practicing politician, and so skillful at… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“I hate the honesty of the moring; the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“In the fall of leaves, In the hustle of breeze, In the curve of streams, I foresee, Nature keeps more concealed, Than… — Jasleen Kaur Gumber Copy Share Image
It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the science of first principles, those which before being considered empirically or formally, are uncertain” — Frederico Rochaferreira Copy Share Image
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point… — Pekka Himanen Copy Share Image
