All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather… — Basith Copy Share Image
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas… — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach him to fish he eats for a life time. Take him… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the… — K.M. Douglas Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
