The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what… — Wagner T Matioli Copy Share Image
“Aren’t neuroscientists doing exactly the same thing as philosophers, who have spent the past two thousand years thinking in order to understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect. — Anthony Pettis Copy Share Image
It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“From my low perch, I watch the world as it passes by on these dirty side streets. There are no westerners in… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
“And when the weariness comes and the nights are sleepless, we will tell each other stories of heroism and hope. We will… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right? — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.” — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My opinion is: Truth must be absolute and that you Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is indeed my opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind."… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR? Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Life is always ready to offer you the best things that you can expect. You only need to know how to get… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“We are all unique in our minds in varied ways. I find pleasure In nature as you find it in alcohol. How… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
