To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
“To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The Delores tank rolled on inexorably, “You get a mortgage to buy a house, a larger mortgage than the previous owner because… — Arun D. Ellis Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.” — Mark R. Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.… — Marc Jampole Copy Share Image
The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“Must this with farce and folly rack my head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
