I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Ernst Mach once got on a bus, and saw a scruffy unkempt bookish-looking person at the far end. He thought… — John Perry Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“I think of sense, and of thoughts built on sense, as windows, not as prison bars. I think that we can, however… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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 Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have held and hold souls to be immortal… Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“He was never more than an armchair philosopher, unwilling to deal with the real world. He was happy to live in a… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“In terms of insight practice, a lawyer who is terrible at insight practices but tries to do them anyway is vastly superior… — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
![“As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and…” quote by Shadia Drury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/shadia-drury-74677_beyond-good-and-evil_as-gershom-scholem-explains-this-shabbet_2038151.jpg)
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