Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he… — James Payn Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“This time she wasn't facing racial cleansing that aimed to create physical perfection, size and color to achieve purity. Now it was… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it. The philosopher dies sententiously--the pharisee ostentatiously--the simple-hearted humbly--the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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