Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
