Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)” — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“The value of a philosopher’s thought is not in its answers—no philosopher has any that are more helpful than saying nothing at… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
“God is the world's oldest philosopher; love is the world's oldest sage.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
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