“It soothes our vanity to say that we failed because we’re too good, or that we’re broke because we’re too honest. But… — Sam Torode Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The main idea of personal happiness at that [Colonial] time was not some hedonistic notion of pleasure but the other, more philosophical,… — Jack Hitt Copy Share Image
When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those… — John Selden Copy Share Image
In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics… — David Swing Copy Share Image
The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
“The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years,… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“It is easy to compress the passions by violence. Philosophy suppresses them with a stroke of the pen. Locks and the sword… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“76. five relationships: (oryun) One of the central concepts of Confucian philosophy, it refers to the five essential and sacred relationships that… — Heo Gyun Copy Share Image
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![“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a free choice of which way of life to choose, either their parents’ life or that of the “English,” they…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8fa/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_l-iberals-insist-that-children-should-be_1892351.jpg)
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