“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Since all terms that are defined are defined by means of other terms, it is clear that human knowledge must always be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“The more I allow myself to face that truth about my participation in a violent world, the more my faith and my… — Mary Jo Bowman Copy Share Image
The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Apologetics is both a science and an art. It is a science because it deals with the truth found within the various… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Do you know those people who will do you wrong and you will be patient with them to change. Until you had… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing upsets the philosophical mind more than when he hears that from now on all philosophy is supposed to lie caught in… — Friedrich Schelling Copy Share Image
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image