The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she… — William James Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought… — William James Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in… — Gilbert Simondon Copy Share Image
I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it” — Bradley Bowman Copy Share Image
Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality.… — William James Copy Share Image
