We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts 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
I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet,… — Zeno Vendler 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
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“1+1 est A : {1}, {2}, {3}, {1,2}, {2,3}, {1,3}, {1,2,3}, ∅. donc on n'existe pas” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
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