Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
“[Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Great benefit can be found in celebrating those who inspire through divine perserverance and strength, when everyone would understand if they gave… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“To distract himself, he formulated a proposition. A philosophical proposition? Maybe, but tending towards "weak thought"--exhausted thought, in fact. He even gave… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.”… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
![“The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of…” quote by John Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e74/john-carroll-16284_beauty_the-garden-of-eden-is-the-realm-of-pure_669813.jpg)
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