Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
In real life...you can't write 2 sentences on antyhing...but on Twitter you're a philosopher... — Jerett Parker Copy Share Image
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat… — Abraham Cowley 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
“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
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones,… — William James 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 negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“As I listened to him describing the scene of the procurer seducing the young girl, I found myself torn between two conflicting… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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