“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and… — William James Copy Share Image
But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not… — Iain Reid 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
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“Devil-boy Jack: "A higher power than ours directs us against the wych-kin. There is no turning back." Thaniel Fox: "There is no… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
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