For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
You can read 10,000 quips and quotes and pearly notes but the best wealth to find is held within your own mind. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
“Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
“We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket,… — Alina Radoi Copy Share Image
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Writing requires immortal thoughts hidden in your conscience which lead you to all philosophical, emotional, romantic statistics of the humans of this… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
