“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
“Some women think being arrogant, selfish, bitter and looking down on others are qualities of being an Independent, strong, powerful and successful… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be… — C.H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I call myself the last philosopher, because I am the last man. No one speaks with me but myself, and my voice… — Friedrich Nietzsche "Oedipus Soliloquy of the Last Philosopher Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
You got this new breed of hipster chicks and hipster men that don't understand anything about sacrifice. They didn't lay it on… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude.… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or… — James Hong Copy Share Image
“The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
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![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
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