Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In many ways, the effort to study philosophy was my rebellion away from medicine. I'm the son of two Indian immigrant physicians,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
“Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.” “Not as old as I shall be, before… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
“If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
