We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana 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
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
