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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James Copy Share Image
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“Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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“Once we give the sense of contradiction its due, we see that genuinely feminist philosophical work ... not only has the potential… — Nancy Bauer Copy Share Image
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world can be absolute except the Absolute itself. Everything else is contained and exists in relations. Relations can exist… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm really easily moved, and I really believe, philosophically, that everything in the world exists at every point in time, in every… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
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“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
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“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Socrates was killed by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything When is a house a house? Just… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists… — Joseph Agassi Copy Share Image
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