It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
You can see a lot about our mission on our website, but the basic idea is that the church believes that understanding… — Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Copy Share Image
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when I was working on my master's thesis, I went to New York for a semester as an exchange student.… — James Thompson Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“Such philosophical musings risk inviting depression or inefficiency. Better just to fix the problem and move on to the next one. It's… — Katrina Firlik Copy Share Image
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
