America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski 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
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The reason why most of our plans fail it is because when people are giving us a hand in what we do.… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
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