“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He… — Bubba Watson Copy Share Image
“As science attained unprecedented power through its ability to predict and control certain limited aspects of nature, it also began to overshadow… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Giddy with each other and the wine, they strolled outside through the Presidio, the old fort now housing restaurants and galleries. Jess… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“So by the beginning of the third century B.C. we find already arisen in the Western civilization of the old world three… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Nobody symbol occurred to me one night at my grandmother's house. The eyes are an inversion of X'd out eyes - the… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
“It required an understanding of theology, and ethics, and ancient religions and philosophies. You had to have a working knowledge in a… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“The philosophers of the past were superficial,” Dr. Pritchett went on. “It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his… — Albert H. Baylis Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
“Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in… — William James Copy Share Image
Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
