I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as… — Fernando Pessoa 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
In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. — David Niven Copy Share Image
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
