Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is… — Rakesh Ranjan Copy Share Image
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Her ideas of national honor seem devoid of that benevolence of heart, that universal expansion of philanthropy, and that triumph over the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, “My daughter… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The difference between Lorentz's Transformation in Lorentz's theory and Lorentz's Transformation in Einstein's Special Relativity is not mathematical but ontological and epistemological… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities of our time. History repeats itself,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind… — Melinda Cross Copy Share Image
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
“Some subjects are in themselves, perhaps, perfectly harmless, and any amount of discussion over them would not be injurious to the faith… — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been… — Adan Canto Copy Share Image
“Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of sociologists and popular… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
“Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Toxic people choose to judge you and treat you bad, based on their assumptions and perceptions they have about you, not based… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall,… — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image