“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“Our great American philosopher William James has said - "We have as many personalities as there are people who know us." To… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe… — Glenn Thompson Copy Share Image
“lawyer and technology writer Richard Koman, argued that Google “has become a true believer in its own goodness, a belief which justifies… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man should hesitate indefinitely to ask a certain woman to marry him because he was not perfectly… — William James Copy Share Image
“Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking.… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Spheres are indeed fertile theoretical tools that help us gain insight into all manner of astrophysical problems. But one should not be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“in our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation \ spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“Today more than ever before, its time to go through with life. Stop thinking so hard about what it is that you… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e.… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
