wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Kakuzo Okakura Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts.… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on… — David Moyes Copy Share Image
what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“My philosophy in gadgets is simple: Use them until they fall apart. Ignore new models as long as you can; they're a… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.” — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
“But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image