I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?' — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
“Reflect or Deflect The person in the mirror can read your mind. Can you make eye contact? Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“That's the underlying philosophy of Chinese driving courses: if something is technically difficult, then in must be useful.” — peter hessler Copy Share Image
“And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“When you are there for people who dont need you. They make fun of you and make you a fool.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“As the wind blows, people will change their ideas about the future and reminisce about the past that once was.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
My anarcho-capitalist philosophy would imply the elimination of the state, but that is a theoretical, philosophical approach. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“A philosophy of life is a bundle of wisdom you have gathered from your reading and experience. It is not a rigid… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not… — David Lange Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!” — Dona Mayoora Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image