“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and… — Jean Bethke Elshtain Copy Share Image
Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“While I was starting out I had no idea on how the world of writing and publishing worked. I had no mentor,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely… — M.I. Finley Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that there is everywhere an attempt at present to divert attention from the actual influence which Kant exercised… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation.… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“To my African brother and sisters. If you manage to go overseas or to other countries. When you get there .Please don’t… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The swordsman said, “Don’t you see? The point is that you can’t do the right thing unless you first decide to do… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
“The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had… — George G.M. James Copy Share Image
Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and… — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have long regarded intentionality as a puzzling phenomenon, for it is hard to see how it can arise in a purely… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image