Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Borderless world is a good idea. But unless all countries of the world agree on that, it is mere idealism. A fancy… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be… — Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Copy Share Image
The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It's really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable… — Gyorgy Lukács Copy Share Image
Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“There is no better outcome of one’s education, which the American philosopher William Durant called “a progressive discovery of our ignorance.” — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked,… — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm nuts or maybe my philosophies have a ring of truth to them, but I just think that there's interesting coincidences… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Bedraggled appearance bothers me a lot. And I think I am not befitted for anything other than finding beauty in a soul.” — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing" Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits the essence of all… — I. Alan Appt Copy Share Image
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
“The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
“What you do matters more than what you don't do, but once in blue moon what you don't do matters much more… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close… — Plato Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
