“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Imagine that butterfly can only see in two dimensions. Its world is flat. If we asked it to describe the glass, it… — Ryan La Sala Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The real problem occurs using the information in a negative base, and the real solution occurs using the information in a positive… — Nr. M. J. K. Molai Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever? — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can either carry a torch or light or be a torch of light. Were all meant to illuminate each other in… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
