“To begin with, philosophy by its nature is an evolving discipline, enriched by the plurality of perspectives that different times and cultures… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“But I am deceiving myself in talking about a Christian republic; these terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“I would argue that religion itself is a corruption. Isn’t it good enough to look at Jesus as a dubiously historical moral… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
“If metaphysics enjoys the least freedom from assumed premises, man enjoys the least freedom from metaphysics in that metaphysical beliefs are the… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If your paradigm is to question everything else why not question yourself before you question everything else? Generic reasoning is so common… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It’s not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it’s that blue-collar philosophy shouldn’t exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not… — Mick Lexington Copy Share Image
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Talking about creating truth tends to alarm people, because truth is meant to be 'just out there'. It doesn't take much thinking… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
![“[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed…” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/71f/richard-p-feynman-495_age-of-reason_doubt-is-not-a-new-idea-this-is-the-idea_1745125.jpg)
![“Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that always stays with me about 'This process we follow; this cycle we ride' and it's almost become a strap line for the film.” quote by Travis Rice](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d65/travis-rice-11666_beautiful_bryan-iguchi-had-this-beautiful-philosop_176025.jpg)
![“I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen…” quote by Ishmael Reed](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5bd/ishmael-reed-7430_art_i-was-roommates-with-2-of-the-guys-who-w_2825561.png)
