Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“When faced with difficulties, a humble, understanding, appreciative and selfless person finds it easy to win a friend. On the other hand,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Plato and Aristotle…survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them;… — Caspar Friedrich Wolff Copy Share Image
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says,… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. Not only… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
“Germany, a country with a tradition of strong commitment to public funding for culture, has a statement which clearly refers to non-economic… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Coil held firmly to the philosophy that one couldn’t be too paranoid. Every moment of every day was a delicate balancing act,… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Theistic absolutism and realism are the basic ontological principles of Kashmir Shaivism. In this philosophy everything that exists is real, and yet… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“sometimes you have to have the courage to have faith. Faith that there are grander things than what we can observe with… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image