“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I bomb atomically socrates philosophies cant define how I be droppin these mockeries — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
“Some of my scientific friends and colleagues confess that they cannot for the life of them see why I don't abandon ship… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is… — Martin Wight Copy Share Image
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall,… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“For this reason, the question whether miracles occur can never be answered simply by experience. Every event which might claim to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them.… — Hayden Thorne Copy Share Image
“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
See, my philosophy is had Beyonce or Solange came to me and said Dad, I want to be a doctor. My personality… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
“What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high paying professions; in other words… — Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this occasion we shall disregard… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“My own philosophy is life is not what you make it, but what you make of itl” — James Lawless Copy Share Image
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic. — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
“The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural… — Michael S. Roth Copy Share Image
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
