“...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.” — Aesop Copy Share Image
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James Copy Share Image
I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or… — Hilary Rhoda Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I… — Mae West Copy Share Image
“Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
“Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects. — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
“It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
“Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of… — Amit Reddy Copy Share Image
“There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
“On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart. — Joe Greene Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Civility is the everyday ethic of honoring the dignity of others as we would wish our own to be honored—an active commitment… — Diane Kalen-Sukra Copy Share Image
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
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