In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they… — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it. — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image