“We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious… — Myrtle Fillmore Copy Share Image
Yesterday doesn't exist, and tomorrow hasn't happened yet; only this very moment in-time is real; cherish it, now it's forever gone. -… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor,… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
It's true that there are younger people making films, and there are different kinds of films. This has created some attention in… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
“Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went out in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“Jefferson advised him: “I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of… — Dan Sisson Copy Share Image
“Yes, this little vacation was just what the doctor ordered, if that doctor was of the philosophy of running away from your… — Ophelia London Copy Share Image
“Understanding’s not enough. Understanding’s from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, that’s the secret. To become… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. — Ellen Glasgow 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
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The life of your body may be sustained by daily bread and rice, but the life of your soul may only be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The Trump administration has struggled with ethics vetting for Cabinet nominees and faced criticism for the president's decision to remain invested in… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
“It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.” — Gregory Bassham Copy Share Image
“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image