All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences.… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?"… — Irwin Corey Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
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