A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds,… — David Stove Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber 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
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi 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
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward,… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
