Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal 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
"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
