I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
“I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
“No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
“After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful.… — Morgan Rhodes Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There's no such things as sweet as dream Well maybe if you live on it But you could live such a sweet… — Joshua Natad Copy Share Image
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“You might discuss important philosophical topics, such as the nature of existence- or what a bunch of lying toe rags politicians are.” — Nick Spalding Copy Share Image
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
“We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“One can speculate that the tardiness and wobbliness of humanity's progress on many of the "eternal problems" of philosophy are due to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which… — Erich Heller Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, 'I don't know that we… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image