As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
“Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Hegel's philosophy is very difficult—he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The ball runs faster than any human, so it’s the ball that has to do the running!’ which, in seventeen words, just… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There can be no such thing as “philosophical horror”, at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is nice word, people would like to read on it, I feel rather reading book on philosophy one must live philosophy.” — Manish Lakhani Copy Share Image
“On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't… — Hailey Gates Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, . . . which is treating what is vague… — F. P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up. — George Blanda Copy Share Image
“The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never… — Charles Lee Lesher Copy Share Image
