“The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Unlike Marxism, the Leninist one-party state is not a philosophy. It is a mechanism for holding power. It works because it clearly… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“For someone who constantly comes across this problem in the course of his professional activities, the question whether philosophy has the status… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“It is because we are through and through compounded of relationships with the world that for us the only way to become… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add to our stock of information,… — Edward Craig Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
“One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin"… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
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