I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality?… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Humans, particularly those influenced by the Judeo-Christian ethic, see themselves as rulers of the earth, an attitude stemming not from divine doctrines,… — R.D. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I wanted to evaluate my own escape from the crowds in 5 different stages so that I could clarify my thoughts and… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Bloom wrote, ‘there is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.’ The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“Mind you, the whole world is our family, and our family is our responsibility – not of a bunch of so-called specialists.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not so much a fulfillment as rather a promise." In other words, by absorbing beauty with the right disposition, we… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth)… — M. Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
“What makes for a livable world is no idle question. It is not merely a question for philosophers. It is posed in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“ To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Ethics and moralities cover a wide range of values. Such words might sound delightful to someone’s ears or make another feel a… — Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib Copy Share Image
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“I think we are entitled to at least three provisional conclusions. The first is that religion and the churches are manufactured, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The lesson for progressive education is that it requires in an urgent degree, a degree more pressing than was incumbent upon former… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Lesson number one: “Not my problem” is not a philosophy. It’s a mental illness. Right up there with pessimism. Other people’s problems… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“As Lord David Cecil has said: “The jargon of the philosophy of progress taught us to think that the savage and primitive… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“The Buddha didn’t set out to found a religion or to convert people to a belief – he simply taught a system… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
![“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child…” quote by Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/peter-kreeft-820_discipline_saint-thomas-aquinas-says-wisely-that-th_537121.jpg)
