Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
“If metaphysics enjoys the least freedom from assumed premises, man enjoys the least freedom from metaphysics in that metaphysical beliefs are the… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I would argue that religion itself is a corruption. Isn’t it good enough to look at Jesus as a dubiously historical moral… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane. There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy. There are… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
A lot of comics are kind of vampire types; we do our shows and disappear into the night. My philosophy was, this… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
In Seoul, Korea one night I spoke to about 1.3 million people and over a million of them indicated salvation decisions. They… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“One might wonder how on earth learning came to be seen primarily a result of teaching. Until quite recently, the world’s great… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through, you will be living in… — Osho Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Now here is an oddity. A question for the zombie philosophers. What does it mean that my past is a fog but… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“Who can understand this? Philosophy is unequal to it. Only faith can grasp so high a mystery. This is the foolishness of… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image