As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Piaget is also concerned with attempts of Maine de Biran, Bergson, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to construct a philosophical psychology as opposed to… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, you will have to decide. Whether you want to drift with the current or whether you want to lay… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
