The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Each and every head coach has their own ideas and philosophy. This club had a clear picture of what I would bring,… — Daniel Farke Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Ah, clever clogs, but it will have happened in one of my alternative lives. You know--the lives hot-shot scientists tell us we… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and… — Martha Barnett Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the various species? [...] Here we come up against the perennial question of human thought, which even evolutionism cannot evade:… — Christoph Schönborn Copy Share Image
“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
“We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Jesus of the Bible lives by a simple philosophy: If love guides our hearts, rules become redundant. Love, embraced as a… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books)… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best… — William James Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to… — Sophie Wahnich Copy Share Image
“Because the core of my personal philosophy is that everything that happens to us benefits us, I was also spared the futility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“We are the disposables. No more than krill for the ravenous rich. We are the breathing, two-legged waste products of a dysfunctional… — Edward Fahey Copy Share Image
“It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of… — Anna C. Salter Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it would sound too paradoxical to say that these two saints saved us from Spirituality; a dreadful doom. Perhaps it may… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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