Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher;… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but… — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist… — Allen W. Wood 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
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
“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
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“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
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 the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid 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
