“For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
“On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was "Access to Tools." The underlying philosophy… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“The question deserves to be asked: Is hating one's nation really such a bad thing? Or perhaps more importantly, after the crimes… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
“What is the character and general structure of the universe in which we live? Is there a permanent element in the constitution… — Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“It’s been said that the entire philosophical foundation of Zen is contained in three small words: “Not always so.” If you want… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“It will surprise you. It will keep you mute. it will make you ponder. It will ignite your passion. It will dumb… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“My awakening was difficult and long but I did not have to make it on my own. Everyone I met forced me… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“Since we nowadays think that all a man needs for acquisition of truth is to exert his brain more or less vigorously,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So… — Wayne Huizenga Copy Share Image
“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
The strengths of the team have been different throughout the years. I do think we try to play a certain way of… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image