Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Howard Hanson Copy Share Image
“Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary? — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more… — Fr. Augustine Baker Copy Share Image
“You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable… — S. Joel Garver Copy Share Image
“God is like a search engine — He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.” — R.M. ArceJaeger Copy Share Image
“Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source:… — Richard Mc Sweeney Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
