The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
“the philosopher Karl Popper and his ally Ernst Gombrich, wrote many critiques of the zeitgeist and argued that although there is no… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say is this:… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is only by being ordinary you get to be extraordinary. Being ordinary does not mean being a robotic slave to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy,… — Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — Plato Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The nature of the Hebrew Bible and traditional Judaism, if we insist upon using Latin terms, is orthoprax, which literally means correct… — Jeffrey Radon Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the… — Chris Bailey Copy Share Image
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In… — Plato Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is,… — William James Copy Share Image
With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“Time was such an element, she now believed. The stretch of existence between events, consisting of countless other events, all strung together… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image