“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“God’s plan is so perfect. That he made every person to be dependent on nature. To be dependent on other people .… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is… — Krystelle Bamford Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who go with the flow, where destiny takes them, and those who… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
If people of different political philosophies actually believed their opponents were similarly motivated by a common set of values to 'love thy… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of… — David A. Clarke, Jr Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
“I'm not constantly looking for the "right" in my thoughts. I am, actually, scared of absolute “rights”. Therefore, I don't think my… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Whether pilgrim or wayfarer, while seeking to be taught the Truth (or something), the disciple learns only that there is nothing that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We therefore conclude that no philosophy and no system of life produced by human thought can have the characteristic of "comprehensiveness." At… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
“University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of… — Schopenhauer Arthur Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue -… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
![“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of…” quote by Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b6e/lord-chesterfield-757_ailments_it-seems-to-me-that-your-doctor-tronchin_2516424.jpg)
