“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' — Bam Margera Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
“Neither does philosophy deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. After all, as successful insomniacs have long suggested, it may be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“The desideratum of the philosophy “better to have never been” is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Life will not change if you change the content of your life. It will change if you change the context of your… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
“If we were to imagine that we have neither time nor life before life, then we must also imagine that we have… — Frederico Rochaferreira Copy Share Image
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Learning about the discovery of the number zero, and its philosophical representation - nothingness - changed my orientation with transformational thinking. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“I wish you the magic of Christmas. Let it fill your hearts and minds with love, joy, peace, and happiness.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“There may indeed be more to life than a pot of cheese, a garden, a few friends; but these things, at least,… — Will Buckingham Copy Share Image
Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.” — Howard Pattee Copy Share Image
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And… — Hillel the Elder Copy Share Image
Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic;… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)” — Jostein Gaarder 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
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
I thought I could go into Cardiff, but different clubs have different cultures, different playing styles and philosophies. I'm more suited to… — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Copy Share Image
The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . .… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark cellar at midnight looking for a black cat that isn't there. He is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When lawful practices contradict with a person’s ethics, it would make sense to avoid engaging in needless confrontations.” — Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib Copy Share Image
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