“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders") Along with everything else about… — Susan Trott Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“the world’s many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“ It meant leading my meta-life. Meta-life is the opposite of living in the moment. It's the syndrome of simultaneously having an experience… — Holly Shumas Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it.… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we’re all very worried that we might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
