Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within , not without : to follow one's… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
“When a person wants something. He/She makes a plan. When a person does not want something. He/She makes excuses.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“When you're in the moment, you realize everything is important, and life becomes real, instead of a hallucination set in the past… — Ara Bedrossian Copy Share Image
“The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our telos --our goal, our end. But the telos… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is ‘don’t be evil,’ would enable evil by cooperating with China’s censorship policies just… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
“Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I… — Brian Rathbone Copy Share Image
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he… — William Feather Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Keep going is keep growing only if one keeps adding values in others' lives through the path of his enriching life's journey.~Anuj… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist—neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.” — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants… — Larry Bishop Copy Share Image
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
There are a lot of folks that look like me that aren't scared anymore, that are tired of the comments and the… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image