“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I may pronounce the toughest thing in which you take part is:- A Philosopher's Love.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. — Marian Hooper Adams Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury 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
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science… — Patricia Churchland 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
Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image