“You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“In matters of human rights, ethics, morality, reason, righteousness, philosophy and theology, white people must be seen, not heard - unless you've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Sir James Mackintosh had said that the powers of a man's mind were proportionate to the quantity of coffee he… — Phil Ford Copy Share Image
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Philosophy doesn’t travel at the same speed technology does. It takes a man forty years to realize what it took his father… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Adorno, Theodor W Copy Share Image
“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are… — Peter singer Copy Share Image
“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet) Good poetry is but philosophy, Good philosophy is but poetry. It is only the majority amateurs, Who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most… — James Ladyman Copy Share Image
“...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“Religion has no physical conception of the world; it has no interest in a physical explanation, which can never be given but… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“In fact the Kabbalah rests upon the exoteric Judeo-Christian tradition. It consists of metaphysics and philosophy, from which can be drawn a… — Robert Ambelain Copy Share Image
“In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
