No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I dont understand why most of us chose to play it safe all the time. Whether its travelling to a new place,… — Robin Abdullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we’re all very worried that we might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If someone asks a question they generally know some part or even all of the answer or they wouldn't of known how… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Howard Hanson Copy Share Image
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image