The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.'… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
