The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Love is like a Rubik's Cube, it requires knowledge, variety, time, and playfulness. There is no guaranttee you will solve the puzzle… — Margaret Skourlis Copy Share Image
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that… — William James Copy Share Image
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not… — Epictetus 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
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach him to fish he eats for a life time. Take him… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless… — Margaret Thatcher 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
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works. — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The future exists as much as the past - it does not. Why not focus on being? The gift of life, the… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
