Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Every soul seeks happiness, Socrates believes, and there is a clearly defined path to achieving happiness, though many don’t choose to take… — Pearson Education Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more… — Bernardo Kastrup Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Dr Dre has never told me a lie. I look up to him, not only as a business man, but just as… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
“But, to affirm that the Sun is really fixed in the center of the heavens and the Earth revolves very swiftly around… — Cardinal Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Ice cubes makes your water cold, but it can't make your water wetter. Straws make it easy to drink, but can't make… — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“A person is nothing but his image. Philosophers can tell us that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of us, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Reframe Your Past as a Teacher, Not a Prison. Seraphina used her painful memories as a strategic map. Do not let your… — Paulson Gracie Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates… — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer's and Regan's theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer's utilitarian… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“This thought experiment is a version of philosopher John Rawls’s concept of the “veil of ignorance,” which posits that only a person… — Harvard Business Review Copy Share Image
I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I apprehend and see in all of them that they are in their own eyes (für sich selbst) only these independent beings… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that.… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
“All throughout his life, he'd been rewarded by sticking to a simple philosophy: refuse to be weak. Push as hard as you… — Kent Wayne Copy Share Image
“There is something in a war carried on by invasion which makes it differ in circumstances from any other mode of war,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize… — Ken Elmgren Copy Share Image
“What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ages, and in the modern era, they have come… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
