I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.” — Mayank Sharma Copy Share Image
“But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Courage is taking calculated risks and facing intimidation in the eye. It is one of the most attractive things a person in… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“So by the beginning of the third century B.C. we find already arisen in the Western civilization of the old world three… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Giddy with each other and the wine, they strolled outside through the Presidio, the old fort now housing restaurants and galleries. Jess… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The philosophers of the past were superficial,” Dr. Pritchett went on. “It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his… — Albert H. Baylis Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Godly ethics have boundaries that are impervious to the installation of gates regardless of which direction they might swing.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality,… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“Being peaceful may not be exciting like war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.” — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of… — W. Norris Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
“Sorrow comes from fear, fear comes from insecurity, insecurity comes from psychological obscurity, which is the lack of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
“How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower… — Sara Marcus Copy Share Image
“t the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image