Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a… — William James Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams 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
“I have mentioned that no one offers the name of a philosopher when I ask the question, “Who helped you most?” Most… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt 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
“There was a posh girl in my year at Cambridge, also a philosopher, who gave names to every significant possession in her… — Harry Bingham 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
