Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
After studying dozens of sexual assault cases, it is clear to me that the "he said/she said" aspect is a big part… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“...if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought… — Mohammed Naseehu Ali Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Real beauty lies not in the physical appearance, but in the heart. Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I do not agree with all of the claims made by experimental philosophers, especially those who seem to think xphi will… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
In life, we're all fighting for something. And I don't say that to be poetic or philosophical. Often it's the simplest things… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual.… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'll be geeky right now too, because I love Sondheim. Anything he does I had a blast, because every time I do… — Kendra Kassebaum Copy Share Image
“All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Seeing is an essential pillar of learning. And yet most of us for instance never actually look up at the sky and… — Robin Abdullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together,… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“The conceptions of life and the world which we call 'philosophical' are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“Nothing upsets the philosophical mind more than when he hears that from now on all philosophy is supposed to lie caught in… — Friedrich Schelling Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
“Apprentices Needed, Not Disciples For many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable.… — William S. Coperthwaite Copy Share Image
“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image