“It is the mythical, the romantic seduction of the pseudoknowledge, i.e. the folkore - both popular and scientific - that propagates quickly… — Manuel Toharia-Cortés Copy Share Image
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“We each have within ourselves the ability to shape our own destinies. That much we understand. But, more important, each of us… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“What do we know for sure? That’s the real question. That’s what the cogito is. That’s what solipsism is. This isn’t theory.… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“{ The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance?… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
“Love is the Yen to Hate. Hate is the Yang to Love. The first nurtures and is good for your overall being… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Our biggest problem is that we are a generation that chooses to compete, because the only time we think we are better… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is non-confrontational. We believe there are many… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the need to have a secret became a fundamental element in Jung’s philosophy. “Like the initiate of a secret society that has… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for… — Stephen W. Hawking Copy Share Image
“His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant's mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We have become the revisionist society. We rewrite history in favor of viewpoints. We rewrite ethics in favor of “what’s right is… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
![“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of compiled observations and half-reasoned principles. Shallow pates enjoy this because it can be used for everyday chat, but the sagacious find in it only confusion…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/immanuel-kant-532_absolute-truth_t-here-is-no-art-in-being-intelligible-i_1079114.jpg)
