“The title for this story comes from the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who gave Part IV of his work Ethics the title Of… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
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Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
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Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Is God really real?”This is a perennial question for the philosophy of religion. Fortunately, the Pythons have answers to it. Perhaps too… — George A. Reisch Copy Share Image
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“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in… — David Copy Share Image
Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
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“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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“The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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