When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
“Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.” — Stephanie Mbida Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We become philosophical when our inherited understanding can no longer account for our experience and we are forced to create for ourselves… — James P. Danaher Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket,… — Alina Radoi Copy Share Image
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion… — David Liss Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
India's new discovery: While we are in India, we do not assume any talent! In America today we are awarded the India… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“You have to be enthusiastic enough to do what is required for achieving your dreams and goals.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness… — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the… — K.M. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
“A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be… — Ken Balneaves Copy Share Image
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
