One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we… — Jason R. Thrift Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical… — Fleeming Jenkin Copy Share Image
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.... — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.” — Little Tiger and the Year of the Dragon D. Byron Patterson Copy Share Image
You can either carry a torch or light or be a torch of light. Were all meant to illuminate each other in… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
