The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics… — Don Ihde 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
Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,… — Simon Critchley 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
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan 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
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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