James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
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