What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Indeed, this is perhaps the greatest Christian paradox of all—that the world’s most paradoxical religion has cultivated rationalism and scientific rigor more… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great… — Chuang Chou Copy Share Image
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Kabbalah (in Hebrew, literally “receiving”) refers to the mystical traditions that encompass the secrets of the Torah, the esoteric truths that reveal… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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'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
“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
