“The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“I received a gift when you proclaimed, “I hate you.” It took me a year to understand that gift. It was one… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“According to ancient Asian philosophy, life is not a circle but a spiral. Every life lesson that has ever been presented to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“If you quit pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
“In Jerusalem, as elsewhere in Palestine, the Haganah's basic strategy reflected a philosophy propounded by David Ben-Gurion. What the Jews had, they… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of comics are kind of vampire types; we do our shows and disappear into the night. My philosophy was, this… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane. There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy. There are… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
In Seoul, Korea one night I spoke to about 1.3 million people and over a million of them indicated salvation decisions. They… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“One might wonder how on earth learning came to be seen primarily a result of teaching. Until quite recently, the world’s great… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
“If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through, you will be living in… — Osho Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Now here is an oddity. A question for the zombie philosophers. What does it mean that my past is a fog but… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image