And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
