My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
“And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
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The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years,… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Moreover, philosophizing—if by that we broadly mean the critical investigation of deeply perplexing questions, such as what is the best way to… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — Wittgenstein Ludwig Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right… — Jeffrey Boam Copy Share Image
I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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