Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm constantly tangled in some kind of bureaucratic web and constantly making the tangible philosophical. Constantly trying to win… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater… — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“There can be no such thing as “philosophical horror”, at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“WISE God decides different paths for us, That a single soul to follow. He trains us through our journeys to earth, And… — Dipak Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a… — John M. Cooper Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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