The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
“There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...]… — Alma Alexander 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
“When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money… — R.M. ArceJaeger Copy Share Image
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The letter is only an aid to philosophical communication, the actual essence of which consists in arousing a particular train of thought.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… — Jason Stanley Copy Share Image
![“There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.” quote by Alma Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f15/alma-alexander-61307_light_there-are-moths-outside-ready-to-die-for_2831750.png)
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