The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When the Greeks got the gospel, they turned it into a philosophy; when the Romans got it, they turned it into a… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
“What happens to an evil soul once you offer her knowledge about compassion, love, life, people, moral and ethics? That is an… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“The reason I said earlier that the mind is neither the Cartesian, highly intellectualized, cranium-confined firm-and-frozen ego, nor the self-effaced, world-immersed, flowing,… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more… — Gareth B. Matthews Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this miasma of forgotten wars, torture and the war on terror, there are no easy answers, especially in the face of… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
“Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to… — William James Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What is self and what is other may be a question of the person's 'biology,' but it is equally a question of… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have… — Seneca Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, "the wildest dreams," into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his… — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... "I should have" "If only… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“I remember the late Admiral Saunders declaring in the House of Commons, and that in the time of peace, 'That the city… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“We live in an age of universal inquiry, ergo of universal scepticism. The prophecies of the poet, the dreams of the philosopher… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
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