“Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“This formal philosophy of learning treats knowledge like a fixed asset: learn, then you have it forever! But as a modern professional,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“In this [turn toward mathematics Al-Kindi] was clearly influenced by Proclus’s Elements of Theology, a partial translation of which he commissioned. Proclus… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Suzuki: We must keep one thing always before our minds, . . . which is, that Buddhist thought is always the outcome… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
Philosopher: A masochistic fool who will be considered a genius once dead. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Being in despair is the worst thing you can do when facing problems in life. Realistically, your problems will not be solved… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.]” — Franco Di Mare Copy Share Image
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You never hear of a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident and for good reason; in order for… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image