Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the… — Friedrich Naumann Copy Share Image
“Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The decisions you make now are like throwing stones into a pool; the ripples will be long-lasting and forever irreversible. - Johnny… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any… — Philippa Foot Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
Nobody symbol occurred to me one night at my grandmother's house. The eyes are an inversion of X'd out eyes - the… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray… — Nichole Robertson Copy Share Image
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should… — William James Copy Share Image
Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.” — William James Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I may not know who you are, where you are, or where you will be after I have gone, but I still… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image