We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
In an argument; Men use reason and never have enough. Women use emotion and always have too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has… — Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation Copy Share Image
“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.” — A Gentlemen Copy Share Image
Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
