Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Think small… If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“I am very much aware of the fact that there would come people who would attempt to proclaim me being a reincarnation… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In terms of my tactical philosophies, I've gathered so much from Ralf. When we first met when I was at New York,… — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It must be clear to those who look below the surface of things that far-reaching changes in our fundamental ideas and attitudes… — Hon J.C. Smuts Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image