“And when the weariness comes and the nights are sleepless, we will tell each other stories of heroism and hope. We will… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“the term ethics is often used interchangeably with the word morality. That the two have become virtual synonyms is a sign of… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't know if Mika Brzezinski intended to be that honest. She's very worried the president intimidating the media is gonna lead… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Without the pieces there can be no whole and without the whole the pieces have no place. What the hell does that… — Bryan Oftedahl Copy Share Image
“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,… — Paulina Ochoa Espejo Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing.… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The worst part was that the Brit’s reportage was just spleen-filled editorializing on the lack of ethics in the valley’s board-rooms (a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an… — L Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better. Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand… — Francis George Copy Share Image
“I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“It’s not a story that leads the reader to philosophical thoughts. And it’s not a philosophical treatise that needs a story to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
