“The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that… — Lao Tzu 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
“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
“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
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“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
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami 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
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
“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
“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
“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
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“B.-H. Lévy: I am amazed to see that when somebody (I’ve been given leave to speak, so I will) starts to explain… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
“It's ok to be friends with old enemies, but never be friends with someone who claims to be your well-wisher but disrespects… — Anupam S Shlok Copy Share Image
They say that everything is derived of star dust -- We are the universe simply exploring itself. It's a peculiar thing really,… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
“The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago - and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Walt Disney World is tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney... and to the talents, the dedication, and the… — Roy O. Disney Copy Share Image
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns forms Profusely scatter'd by autumnal storms; Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy sheds Profusely scatter'd from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“You are twenty. You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. Children. Witches. Magic. Symbols.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image