I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe… — Sabina Berman Copy Share Image
The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill 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
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
