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
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“How many more Christs, Buddhas, Tolstoys, Kings, Naskars have to rise, for humanity to have the revelation that, humanism is the greatest… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts … He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Oh, make no mistake. I am no callow, ardent youth. I am an elderly man, broken in health and body, and soon… — Jack London 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
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Only a fool or philosopher would make sweeping generalizations about the nature of happiness. I am no philosopher, so here goes: Money… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that… — Victor Hugo 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
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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