Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom. — Bettany Hughes 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
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
