“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“We do have the brain capacity to be novel and loving souls - we are souls with limitless potential for good, yet… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
“Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“...As she grew older, she was aware of her changing position on mortality. In her youth, the topic of death was philosophical;… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government… — William Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
“My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances,… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In his differentiation between asceticisms, Nietzsche posited a clear divide between the priestly varieties on the one side, illuminated by his vicious… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Metaphysical. Justus means just, upright. One definition of “just” is “conforming to the spiritual law . . . righteous before God.” Justus… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it,… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns -… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Was that what it was all about? To know everything—the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live… — Lawrence C. Becker Copy Share Image
![“[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn’t want…” quote by Joshua Rothman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cb0/joshua-rothman-98488_cross-pollination_l-ike-people-ideas-have-social-lives-the_1124846.jpg)
