Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
“When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that you've always got to honor the past, acknowledge the present and leave room in your space for… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
“Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, 'Black Box' on the same day,… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be.… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Quran did not put forward any philosophical arguments for monotheism; its approach was practical, and, as such, it appealed to the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“[H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
“Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is… — The Buddha's Fire Sermon Copy Share Image
“So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Among Plato's successors, the most remarkable thinker to pick up this strain of argument is Plotinus. He offers little to those who… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In the tenth century AD, Augustine’s biblical philosophy of music inspired a group of Benedictine monks to build the world’s largest pipe… — Vishal Mangalwadi Copy Share Image
There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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