One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
