What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan 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
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. — Sun Ra 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
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple 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
I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
