Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious… — Myrtle Fillmore Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Ernst Mach once got on a bus, and saw a scruffy unkempt bookish-looking person at the far end. He thought… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“I think of sense, and of thoughts built on sense, as windows, not as prison bars. I think that we can, however… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
