“My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people's minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs?… — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“I blew a strand of black hair from my face. “A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to… — Heather Heffner Copy Share Image
“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. to him or her,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition; for changing the world in a way that few secular institutions ever have.… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The emotional transformation of engineering education…is based on a philosophy of education that is grounded in the real world and in the… — David Edward Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz… — John Anthony West Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Vatsigotra asked, “Is there a self?” and the Buddha did not say anything. Vatsigotra persisted, “Do you mean there is… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which… — Brad Carson Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“No duties. I don’t have to be profound. I don’t have to be artistically perfect. Or sublime. Or edifying. I just wander.… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image