“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth. — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When someone asks 'what's the use of philosophy?' the reply must be aggressive, since the question tries to be ironic and caustic.… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This much remains: we come from love and we return to love, to a fullness that needs no name and yet fills… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Deep down in my heart I always keep smiling because life is such a magical, mysterious, and wonderful thing.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“I am strong because love is my strength. I am beautiful because kindness is my beauty. I am a success because I… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“UNDAUNTED PURSUIT Success, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Do not pray for help when you are facing adversity. Pray for wisdom, strength, and tenacity so that you can overcome it.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Mind you, my identity is of no greater value than the dust under your feet. If there is anything valuable that I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Often, we are not courageous enough to tell the truth because we fear societal prejudices and perceptions.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct!… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image