“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow.… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm not constantly looking for the "right" in my thoughts. I am, actually, scared of absolute “rights”. Therefore, I don't think my… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.” — Renate Linnenkoper Copy Share Image
“It has turned out, in fact, to be far harder to translate teleological into non-teleological language than had been anticipated by philosophers;… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“That was the way of things. He had heard of philosophers who claimed that it was possible to belong to neither group,… — R. Cameron Cooke Copy Share Image
“The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image