“Information does not make a philosophy, information only makes a memory, what makes a philosophy is the way ideas are rotated in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There's been a war, he thought (picturing the charred corpses that day's newspaper had shown), but we're all supposed to just get… — Douglas Watson Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences.… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“That was the way of things. He had heard of philosophers who claimed that it was possible to belong to neither group,… — R. Cameron Cooke Copy Share Image
“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“It was the mutual study of the Spear and the significance of its legend and their strikingly opposite views about it which… — Trevor Ravenscroft Spear of Destiny Copy Share Image
“The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explore the concepts of science and mathematics,… — Katherine Vucicevic Copy Share Image
“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Unwittingly, then, the philosophers of the Enlightenment instigated the end of ancien régimes everywhere – in thought if not in fact. They… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The style of a soul. Do you remember the famous philosopher who spoke of the style of a civilization? He called it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
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