The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics… I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
“I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Ernst Mach once got on a bus, and saw a scruffy unkempt bookish-looking person at the far end. He thought… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury 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
Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image