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
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and… — JC Marino Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.” — Gregory Bassham Copy Share Image
“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of… — Anirban Bose Copy Share Image
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account… — William James Copy Share Image
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?… — Richard D. Ryder Copy Share Image
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it… — William James Copy Share Image
America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
“Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually… — Ursula Dubosarsky Copy Share Image
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
To see the good things of this life, it took me a long time to discover with every philosophical thought I had. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.” — I. Alan Appt Copy Share Image
The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue …perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant. — Grimes Copy Share Image
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore… — Blaise Pascal 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