It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy. — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some… — Ben Chasny Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all,… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. — Plato Copy Share Image
