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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In my political philosophy - which is definitely more socialist Democrat than centrist politician like Hillary Clinton - I think regulation for… — David Cross Copy Share Image
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My mum used to take me and my younger sister to work with her. She said: 'You don't want to be a… — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution -… — Godfried Danneels Copy Share Image
“As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not merely historical,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm… — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
“Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Cos there's holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of… — Ian Ayris Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The moment of decapitation is for Marin, as it had been for Caillois, a moment of 'singular metamorphosis ... when the Gorgon's… — David A. Leeming Copy Share Image
To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So we all ran around in mad, mindless, meaningless circles, as if we were in a cotton-candy eating contest where the grand… — Edward M. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas…scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing… — Mindy Fordham Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
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