I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“The lesson for progressive education is that it requires in an urgent degree, a degree more pressing than was incumbent upon former… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.” — Christopher Hill Copy Share Image
“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you… — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre-Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was "Access to Tools." The underlying philosophy… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“Nobody will be able to hurt you when you fill your heart with the joy of love and the beauties of life.… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
