“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
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
“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
“And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that good philosophy will always have a place in the investigation of any matter of deep human importance,… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“You're an unusual person," she said. "Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
People say how refreshing it is to see two men open up. But I don't really think of us as being those… — Paul Whitehouse 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. — Mason Cooley 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
