The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." And… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“We keep on saying Africa is cursed, because we are suffering , but Africa is not cursed . Africa is blessed with… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ...… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Thus, because Christian morality leaves animals out of account (of this, more later on), they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a destination - it is not a point in the future which you reach through discipline and efforts. Truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Are we going to debate philosophy or should I just kiss and make up with the demon now? Let it get a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which… — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“[Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Multiple species, with multiple viewpoints and racial philosophies, simply cannot hold power together for long. The dominant voice must certainly be wise… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
“Work hard, you can be Millionaire. Work hard and smart, you can be Billionaire. Trillionaire?? Get ready to beat capitalism in its… — Chinmay Jangid Copy Share Image
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
“the present book’s inquiry into the elements of an adequate philosophy of consciousness leads to the conclusion that consciousness can be understood… — Eugene Webb Copy Share Image
The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image