The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness…” — Mahesh shekhar Copy Share Image
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of.… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been… — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
“…philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization…but if professors can truly wield this fatal power,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)” — G.e.graves Copy Share Image
My objection to Liberalism is thisthat it is the introduction into the practicalbusiness of life of the highest kindnamely, politicsof philosophical ideas… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Ask yourself your own questions and go after what might answer them. Before life, you must maintain a philosophical and scientific stance.… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“We never really know someone else's thoughts. And it's thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“It is plain to see, when a great man is not long for this world, for he makes a fool of himself” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
The pen is mightier than the sword were lead to think. But how much power doth thy pen hold when she hasnt… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. — Plato Copy Share Image
“I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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