Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This formal philosophy of learning treats knowledge like a fixed asset: learn, then you have it forever! But as a modern professional,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“The great philosophical question goes: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Philosophers and fools might claim that light is without shape, that it finds its existence in painting the shape of other things,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the… — Nehemiah Grew Copy Share Image
“The history of Immanuel Kant's life is difficult to portray, for he had neither life nor history. He led a mechanical, regular,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“A philosophical system may stand on the coherence or persuasiveness of its propositions. The church is otherwise. It is not a collection… — The Protestant Faith George W. Forell Copy Share Image
I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not… — David Lange Copy Share Image
“Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, "Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness";… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You cannot know how many other miracles one sole miracle begets. She was not a savior. She did not confer salvation. She… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In other philosophies, my questions would get answered to some degree, but then I would have a follow-up question and there would… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“We attach to anything or anybody because we think that they make us happy. We attach to the happiness so much. On… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is Destiny? Is it a doctrine formulated by aristocrats and philosophers arguing that there is some unseen driving force predicting the… — Ivan Rusilko Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image