Philosophy Quotes · Page 377

“In every way, we inhabit the Noosphere, the domain of nous, of mind. This cosmic Noosphere is evolving. Powerful minds are shaping…

— Mike Hockney

“Dagny, there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will…

— Ayn Rand

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,…

— Kedar Joshi

“Our responsibility, as individual cells of a living organism, is to perform our individual functions as well as possible. Our orders come…

— Paul S. Williams

Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together…

— David Small

The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available…

— Misha Collins

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about…

— Ayn Rand

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and…

— David Flynn

Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived…

— Lorenz Oken

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One suspects that the conservatives of left and right don’t much like the “mass” and its badly informed preferences. Let us take…

— Deirdre McCloskey

“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being…

— Raheel Farooq

“As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have…

— Thomas Hardy

“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent…

— Carl Sagan

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he…

— Anonymous

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate…

— Aristotle

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One of the most often posed questions I receive from clients and readers is: “Why is there so much evil in the…

— Cassandra Blizzard

“that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they…

— Arthur Koestler

One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us…

— Philip Sherrard

“All throughout his life, he'd been rewarded by sticking to a simple philosophy: refuse to be weak. Push as hard as you…

— Kent Wayne

“Tarkovsky was right. The responsibility of the artist is to stir people’s hearts and minds toward loving others: to find the light…

— Qiu Miaojin

“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,…

— Yuval Levin

Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship…

— Pope Benedict XVI

...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the…

— John Cassian

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task…

— Anonymous

“despite Frame’s ability to view the holistic character of Van Til’s thought, his preoccupation with linguistic and conceptual units, especially in the…

— William D. Dennison

“I am drunk. I usually only drink like this once a month. At such times my audacity and temerity know no bounds.…

— Anton Chekhov

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to…

— R. Austin Freeman

“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity…

— Cal Newport

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.…

— Orestes Brownson

“There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Part of the whole capitalist ethic is that the only thing that matters is how much money you make tomorrow: that's the…

— Noam Chomsky

“What do you think all of us are here for? Certainly not to seek happiness. We are not here to enjoy. We…

— Abhaidev