“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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what's going on in the world and getting in tune with it. It isn't… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I think it is very important you are on one page about football philosophy, about football tactics, about the profiles of the… — Erik ten Hag Copy Share Image
From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them. As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they… — Emma Restall Orr Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“When Mr. Lippmann says that the founders of our free institutions were adherents of the philosophy of natural law, and that ‘the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you can learn something completely mind-blowing in yoga and then totally forget about it the minute you need it the most.… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I've read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War.… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James Copy Share Image
You need to make the music strong, and the philosophy behind the music has to be solid. What the music exudes, what… — David S. Ware Copy Share Image
A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
During therapy I have realised that my work ethic comes from my mum, Emma. She used to work two or three jobs… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
“a philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image