Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.” — Fang Chen Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of.… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness…” — Mahesh shekhar Copy Share Image
“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,… — Pope Dionysius 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
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)” — G.e.graves Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is thisthat it is the introduction into the practicalbusiness of life of the highest kindnamely, politicsof philosophical ideas… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad… — Girish Kohli Copy Share Image
If someone asks a question they generally know some part or even all of the answer or they wouldn't of known how… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“ The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism -… — Alejandro Moreno Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials” — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.” — James McGregor Copy Share Image
Everything we do as people - not to get philosophical - but there is no pure-bred creativity. Everything is derived from influence… — CMAT Copy Share Image
In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all… — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Copy Share Image
![“No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs…” quote by Jerry Fodor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/jerry-fodor-26279_deserve_no-doubt-intuitions-deserve-respect-but_2950101.jpg)
![“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about it? I could understand [his] attraction to such a philosophy. Spartan, rigorous. Surpassingly skeptical. Well, good: philosophers should be…” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87c/joyce-carol-oates-344_philosophical_i-had-been-reading-wittgenstein-there-ar_1982187.png)
![“Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/thomas-huxley-1183_gun_every-philosophical-thinker-hails-it-the_1673755.png)
