'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Look, doctor, China, the country without religion. The Chinese have no religious ideas, only a kind of philosophy. In the Middle Kingdom… — Leo Perutz Copy Share Image
“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like… — Jeff Burden Copy Share Image
“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.” — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“What would it profit us to know the Bible by heart and the principles of philosophers if we live without grace and… — J.D. Nelson Copy Share Image
I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts… — Max Aaron Copy Share Image
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
“I have a religion, my own religion, and I even have more religion than all of them, with their mummery and hocus-pocus.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A bird doesn't sing because it knows the song. It sings because it carries the melody in its heart. May you always… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness… — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists…,contacts who would help her build her business.” — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
“I don’t stay together with people who say “Life is short”, “Life is ridiculos”. Because those are the ones who are not… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
“He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“A positive person discusses possibilities. A negative person discusses problems. A cynic is oblivious to positivity and negativity.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“He would never be able to untangle his holdings and interests—including big investments in the Middle East—in a way that would satisfy… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out, Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for… — Clare Chambers Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Teilhard de Chardin - French… — Angela Jeffs Copy Share Image
“We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.” — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than… — Cindy Morgan Copy Share Image
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are… — Plato Copy Share Image
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard Copy Share Image