“It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach,… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix… — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image