“When, however the elements of this [book] such as time study, functional formanaship etc, are used without being accompanied by the true… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which… — Dom Eugene Boylan Copy Share Image
Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul.… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I would say we had two goals when doing this CD. The first goal is to introduce people who have never seen… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve… — Sean Kamali Copy Share Image
“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use… — Land ethic Copy Share Image
If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts … He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
“Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Through nature, philosophy has been explained throughout history. The sting of a scorpion or the bite of a spider can kill the… — M.B. Watson Copy Share Image
“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Long life to Commerce! My soul expands at the sight of its life. What has not commerce done from the beginning of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Honesty is a moral virtue, a matter of the will. Honesty means willing the truth with the whole of your heart. This… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“He who is in harmony with the Tao is like a newborn child. Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak, but… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge –… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Common-Law judges sometimes talk about the law, and schoolmasters talk about the latin tongue, in a way to make their hearers think… — William James Copy Share Image
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise,… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“Your statement ... tells a very fine story; but pray, was not your stock a little heavy a while ago? downward tendency?… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization,… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're… — John Callen Copy Share Image