“Sarah had always envied her sister for having a philosophy of life so simple it fit on a throw pillow.” — Joanne Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed everything that I have done during this journey in a certain way trying to break through the mundane way… — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are… — Irving Kaplansky Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they seldom… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But what does it mean to be on God's side? I believe it starts with focusing on the common good - not… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things --… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
My philosophy is very simple. I want my fans to come to theatres and watch my films and enjoy. I ensure that… — Kalabhavan Mani Copy Share Image
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I went to church a little bit when I was growing up with my dad, mom and aunt. We didn't go every… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum.” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“Most people in the world have no soul-consciousness or self-consciousness. They only have societal consciousness. They have no time to think uniquely.… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.” — James Elliott Copy Share Image
The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community;… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Klosterman’s Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the… — Johnny Firic Copy Share Image