“When students are taught to approach argument through inquiry, good things happen: they choose topics worthy of arguing, they gain ownership (through… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logic. That leads to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In public and in private life, it often happens that there is simply no time to collect the relevant facts or to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Over the years, we have been conditioned that certain communities need to be looked upon in a certain typical way. So I… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“What you're doing is building a horrible kind of logic. People read what you write and they say, 'Yes, he is talking… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes… — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
When you try to translate any kind of real-life problem into a neat logical form, you're almost always simplifying it. We need… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A theist can't empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God's existence. By… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically,… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, "What?" "That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
