“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new.… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“I think,” said Ethel, breaking in, “the philosophy is this: I believe that it is a trying life. I know teaching takes… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“If we have no evidence of what happens after life, then there are infinite logical possibilities. Since there is only one kind… — Aidan Crowe Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
“In my life are many windows and many graves. Sometimes they exchange roles: then a window is closed forever, then by way… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens.… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past,… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If you turn to the right, you will marry, if to the left, you will be killed." A true philosopher never chooses… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I must confess that I am not at all partial to the fabrication of Weltanschauungen. Such activities may be left to philosophers,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure her independence would survive against the full onslaught of his wilfulness. But she loved him – anyway and every… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
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