“We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing… — Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
“we live our lives from the "inside", from the vantage point of our own personal mini-cam on life. This gives us privileged… — Gregory Bassham Copy Share Image
“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
“I regret nothing. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and evil will always be one… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Whole idea of progress - that presence is based on the past, that future generations are going to improve our achievements, and… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age;… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Of course philosophy is not able to impose its own choices on politics, let alone on the economy. Nonetheless, it can help… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
