“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Piaget, J. (1971). Insights and illusions of philosophy. New York: World Publishing Company. (Original work published in 1965)” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
From a philosophical point of view, if I had one song of mine that I would want to live on, it is… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness";… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It happens, therefore, that readers of the book, or of any other book built about a central concept, fall into three mutually… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
“... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.” — David Brin Copy Share Image
“These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“They connected on every level - mental, philosophical, emotional. But she couldn't have him, not all of him.” — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us. — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Ordinary philosophy is like a hound hunting his own tail. The more he hunts the farther he has to go, and his… — Benjamin Paul Blood Copy Share Image