The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don't understand. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume 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
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great… — G. K. Chesterton 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 philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
