To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior, and bad attitude.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean… — Chris Powell Copy Share Image
“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Finally, it follows from the preceding proposition that the joy by which the drunkard is enslaved is altogether different from the joy… — Spinoza Copy Share Image
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and… — Slavoj Zizek 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
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
“Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark cellar at midnight looking for a black cat that isn't there. He is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
