Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think,… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If I were a candidate for running, I'd say, "Look at what the economy has done." It's strong. We've created a lot… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“While any software system introduces some kind of formalization of the world, HCI (like AI) deals with formalizations of human cognition and… — Paul Dourish Copy Share Image
I would say that 'Kahaan hoon main' rather than being philosophical is very spiritual. It is about a girl who is facing… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Philosophical thoughts distinguish themselves from non-philosophical ones by the fact that they embrace the world as a whole. “John is stupid” is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed.… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
India is known all over the world are the only three countries India, Bharat, Hindustaan! Who continues to sing the melody of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image