Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“I watch Fox news for the comedy, MSNBC when I need to be reminded that mind midgets exist and CNN when I… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was really certain about where his next meal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub! — Antoine Rivarol 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
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
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