When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
