. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“This chapter is about the dieter's philosophy of food, and it will repeat a lot of things you've heard before. However, you've… — Martin Cizmar Copy Share Image
“To what a degree this loose mode of classing and denominating objects has rendered the vocabulary of mental and moral philosophy unfit… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the… — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
“Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I… — Raegan Butcher Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Equality as a condition for the development of individuality was also the meaning of the concept in the philosophy of the Western… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Love becomes stronger in the absence of your loved one. The heart can feel the absence more than the presence. When you… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“After a long analysis of Robson’s suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go.… — Karen Finerman Copy Share Image
“1. That reason is a gift of God and that we should believe in its ability to comprehend the world. 2. That… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“But right now, as for my own philosophy, there is a quotation that rather sums it up: “When you arise in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“the philosophical cure to anxiety is not optimism but rather pessimism. optimism says “the world is beautiful and there’s no reason to… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The surest way to bring out the best in you may simply be to remind yourself, again and again, that you can… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image