“Reality [...] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid [...]. To break apart… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you. You were trying to understand the nature of nature, and I was trying to understand understanding.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality. --as quoted… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and… — Rafael Copy Share Image
“We make sense of the world, some philosopher once said, only through its rearrangement, through a constant shift in perspective coupled with… — John Gregory Brown Copy Share Image
“When the culture of any organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“In every way, we inhabit the Noosphere, the domain of nous, of mind. This cosmic Noosphere is evolving. Powerful minds are shaping… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
“Philosophy goes into the problem deeply, without changing being at all. Religion tells me that I have been created; that I am… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have read in a Hindoo book, that "there was a king's son, who, being expelled in infancy from his native city,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“To lovers out there …. A relationship should bring the best In you. If the relationship brings the worse In you then… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“A recent book by University of Chicago professor of philosophy and law Brian Leiter outlines what I believe will become the theoretical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and… — Arthur C. Danto Copy Share Image
“After Justinian became Emperor: "He was a man of deep piety, which he signalized, two years after his accession, by closing the… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years,… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is allowed that vocations and employments of least dignity are of the most apparent use; that the meanest artisan or manufacturer… — Samuel Jonhson Copy Share Image
![“Reality [...] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid [...]. To break apart and confine this reality into separate categories created by the mind was foolish and futile, much like trying to capture a ray of light inside a dark wooden…” quote by David Zindell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/366/david-zindell-19617_evil-thoughts_reality-at-every-level-from-photons-to-p_1029268.png)
![“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity’s history had been nothing but an interminable pageant…” quote by David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/david-bentley-hart-4691_christian-faith_nietzsche-had-the-good-manners-to-despis_745509.jpg)
![“We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy. Karl Marx very clearly said Marxism requires that we destroy God because government must become God.” quote by Rafael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74b/rafael-69532_communism_we-have-to-unmask-this-man-potus-obama-t_2975669.jpg)
![“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_philosopher_their-philosophers-thinking-is-in-fact-f_2781328.jpg)
