You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events,… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is… — Donald M. MacKinnon Copy Share Image
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ” — Sharon Esther Lampert Copy Share Image
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
