If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
