I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and… — N. T. Wright 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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical… — 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
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The status of philosophy is such that it is not the case that you cannot be wrong in philosophy but that it… — Peter Worley Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you,… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
“Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can… — Joe Boot Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image