And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is… — Ibnu Katsir Copy Share Image
“he spelled out with crystal clarity the philosophy behind all of his work, the value of ‘a sincere hand, and a faithful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
“It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Among borrowers there is a philosophy that “it’s better to repay late than repay early, and it’s better not to repay than… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Christ... did not come on earth to be a conqueror or a philosopher, or a mere teacher of morality. He came to… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way,… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
“The scientific (not to mention philosophical and metaphysical) implications are astounding. Let's say some of the atoms in your body originally formed… — Bob Berman Copy Share Image
“Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're… — Wolfgang Petersen Copy Share Image
Just because men of renown, such as Edgar Cayce, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, or even Nikola Tesla, say something; doesn't that it is… — YourMaj3sty Copy Share Image
“Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery… — Karim El Koussa Copy Share Image
“You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
“A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I am the Muskrat,” said the wretched creature faintly. “A philosopher, you know. I should just like to point out that your… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image