Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be… — C.H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
