Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful -… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance.… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Do not be the cause of cutting the sustenance of other people, a day comes people will be the reason to cut… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
