Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.” — Cornelia DeDona Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
