Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible. — David Levine Copy Share Image
“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind."… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
“Those who do not complicate life choose the easiest way to achieve happiness.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a… — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
“I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion,… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James Copy Share Image
“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a kind in which Dasein… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Choose to correct your mistakes rather than comparing it to others.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
“Quantum is not only physics. It is a new way of understanding reality.” — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
“One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image