“The vessel was just comfortable for two people; there was room only for necessities, and Flambeau had stocked it with such things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas.… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
“The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It’s your crap that’s endearing. It’s the basis of any relationship, way beyond even the choice of who wins on to whom.… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps permissible here to draw attention to a distinction made by Martin Heidegger, who speaks of the duality of calculating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Are you a god, then?" Sokrates asked. "What is a god?" Ikaros threw back instantly. They both sat up and leaned forward… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“The Church has been trying to preach morality and ethics without the Gospel as a basis; it has been preaching morality without… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“According to science/religion/philosophy, there is a part/piece/place in our body that is the source of our energy. It has no end or… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
“Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who… — Khalid Gibran Copy Share Image
Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Living as human being and as a divinity. moving from tension into relaxation, from relaxation into trance, from trance into a more… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“Without an awareness of blind spots, traditional approaches to ethics won’t be particularly useful in improving behavior. If, like most people, you… — Max H. Bazerman Copy Share Image
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Very obviously, the electorate as a mass has not imbibed the philosophy of 'think national, act local' or even 'think big and… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
