If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization. — Bertrand Russel Copy Share Image
“See the life through your heart, understand it by your mind and love it like your soul.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
“A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Only a fool or philosopher would make sweeping generalizations about the nature of happiness. I am no philosopher, so here goes: Money… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me , for I can lose these qualities without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Nothing like a good dose of hunger to bring out the philosopher in anyone” — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
“We each have within ourselves the ability to shape our own destinies. That much we understand. But, more important, each of us… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“To lovers out there … Why would you want to keep or to control someone, especially your partner. People who are in… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The purpose of Knowledge is to create a doorway which leads to the Truth” — Misha Hoo Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions. — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes. — Barry O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“We are fully committed to upholding the highest standards of ethics and to rigorously maintaining the integrity of our research,’’ a hospital… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.” — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
