One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
“Worship,” Tozer explained, “is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking 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
“The world is in trouble because of a few funny sympathetic philosophers” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image