The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
While we may have very different ideas and core philosophies, at the end of the day, we are all Americans. We do… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our belief in a world external to ourselves, filled with things and people that are not us, is an overwhelming fact of… — James M. Corrigan Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics,… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When your wife says glass is half empty, don't ever pour philosophy of half empty is half full, just fill her glass… — Adhir Amdavadi Copy Share Image
“When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“Courage often comes from the sense of responsibility and duty. Mahatma Gandhi was a kind man of courage. His courage came from… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“how can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
“The problem, Paulinus, is not that we have a short life, but that we waste time. Life is long and there is… — Seneca the elder Copy Share Image
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities, each of which is composed of actual and virtual elements. Purely actual objects do not exist.… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“In a move that is at odds with what I am calling the Unmooring thesis, Heidegger wants to show that modern philosophy… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
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