“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Writing requires immortal thoughts hidden in your conscience which lead you to all philosophical, emotional, romantic statistics of the humans of this… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“… a stunning finale … Fans of smart, philosophical science fiction will want to check this out.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution… — David E. Wilkins Copy Share Image
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what… — Novalis Copy Share Image
It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. — John Locke Copy Share Image
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“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
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“Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad… — Girish Kohli Copy Share Image
If someone asks a question they generally know some part or even all of the answer or they wouldn't of known how… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials” — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Everything we do as people - not to get philosophical - but there is no pure-bred creativity. Everything is derived from influence… — CMAT Copy Share Image
In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all… — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Copy Share Image
“People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.” — James McGregor Copy Share Image
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.” — Fang Chen Copy Share Image
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