The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so… — Plato Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple… — Stuart Aken Copy Share Image
“When we come to deal with an institution of His, we dare never expect to fathom or test it by our poor,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“No matter how wide the road you walk it one foot at a time" RjS” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have learned that human beings are not searching for philosophies, even though it may seem that way sometimes. We are searching… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The more you say the more people know about you, make it a point that you say the most sense as little… — Morena Baloyi Copy Share Image
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“America is beginning to evolve beyond the worldview that has been predominant for many decades—the rational-individualistic-materialistic paradigm. We are evolving a more… — Stephen Dinan Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're… — Wolfgang Petersen Copy Share Image
Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
“Hume is indeed sceptical about the possibility of metaphysical insights that go deeper than science can, he is not at all sceptical… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Such a principled disregard of ad hominem evidence is a characteristically modern prejudice of professional philosophers. For most Greek and Roman thinkers… — James Miller Copy Share Image
I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
