By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher. — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones,… — William James Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“As I listened to him describing the scene of the procurer seducing the young girl, I found myself torn between two conflicting… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
“The philosopher with his two eyes sees double, so is unable to see the unity of the Truth. ز وحدت ديدن حق شد معطل**دو چشم فلسفي چون بود احول” — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
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