Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it.… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we’re all very worried that we might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm constantly tangled in some kind of bureaucratic web and constantly making the tangible philosophical. Constantly trying to win… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater… — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
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