The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Belief In Self If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Don't need reason to be kind (Sonnet 2933) Philosophies there are hundreds, school there is but one - life. Sciences there are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“I don’t hesitate to say that damage or destruction of the land-community is morally wrong, just as Leopold did not hesitate to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom?” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“I am the Muskrat,” said the wretched creature faintly. “A philosopher, you know. I should just like to point out that your… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, this little vacation was just what the doctor ordered, if that doctor was of the philosophy of running away from your… — Ophelia London Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Learning and hunger both are inversely proportional to each other. The more excited you are about learning, the less hunger you feel.” — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
