For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism -… — Alejandro Moreno Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing,… — Elizabeth Rusch Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
“Ethics involves the question of authority. The Christian lives under the sovereignty of God, who alone may claim lordship over us. Christian… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.” — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“You may fall down in life, Lift yourself up and be strong. To stand up, you should know what falling down is… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem,… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or… — Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Copy Share Image
If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed." — Philip Schuyler Copy Share Image
I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do… — William blake Copy Share Image
“Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
