Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“It's a philosophical minefield!" Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Death. We view death, as influenced by our upbringing. Death. The end. Game over. If we were to take Death in a… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We’re very bold in our proclamations of our own… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical… — Fleeming Jenkin Copy Share Image
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Darkness! Come not for my soul. It is light I seek. Illumination, my goal. Your violent hand leads me to unsafe ground.My… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Philosophical thoughts distinguish themselves from non-philosophical ones by the fact that they embrace the world as a whole. “John is stupid” is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed.… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
India is known all over the world are the only three countries India, Bharat, Hindustaan! Who continues to sing the melody of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
