“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Political parties depend for existence and success, not so much on the holding of identical views, as on a shared philosophy and… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
“Like the last three British prime ministers, Barack Obama has had a philosophy and plan to win the hearts and minds of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so,… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspect of this culture of repudiation has been the attack on the central place accorded to reason in human… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“Buddhism in general and Centrism in particular is not meant as a philosophical edifice but as a set of tools for experientially… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“We live such tangled, fraught lives, he thought, but in the end we die like all the other animals and we're buried… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
“In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to? My biggest shift came after listening to a… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“the humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like an elder brother who is conscious of his responsibilities; the humanist who loves… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In one of Plato's seminars a young man with a rural accent stood up one day and said Plato's philosophy was nonsense.… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A metaphysical understanding of what the world is, how it works, and how it all fits together, in general and abstract terms,… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
“By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The Masonic philosophy embodied the political movement under way in America to promote individual liberty and establish a broad-based national identity that… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image