Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A piece of advice if I may be allowed to give it, is that no philosophy, no creed, no God is worth… — Robert Cochrane Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Then, like magic, the rain came, or we knew intuitively where to go and find a clear stream, or the hickory branch… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.” — Frances Burney Copy Share Image
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The Celtics have always had an older person to try to pass along some of the team philosophy. I've learned to fill… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
“It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I would change the knowledge I have into wisdom, so that the things that are to happen will be changed into the… — Padraic Colum Copy Share Image
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“Imagining someone who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like friend, lover, genius, or ghost... such a being… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“The Bible alone is the word of God; thus, it alone determines our doctrine and ethics. It does not matter what the… — P.G. Mathew Copy Share Image
“Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we’re a part of society. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White… — Harriet Miers Copy Share Image
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image