I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own. ” — William S. Coperthwaite Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.” — Jocelynn Drake Copy Share Image
“Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Real beauty lies not in the physical appearance, but in the heart. Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
