“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“Don’t give up on your dreams, goals, plans or Ideas because people are laughing at them. People who are narrow minded laugh… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“LIfe is your dancing bear. You assume you are in control simply because you are holding the lead and the bear hasn't… — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My dad's philosophy was (and I think still is) that life is a malevolent force, which seeks to destroy you, and you… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“One underlying philosophy in Ecclesiastes is that the individual can find truth by using his powers of observation and reason instead of… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“The status of philosophy is such that it is not the case that you cannot be wrong in philosophy but that it… — Peter Worley Copy Share Image
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Don't wish that you were in another's skin, that you were born different. Someone who is prettier with lighter skin or darker… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can… — Joe Boot Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
“I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctors being the current purveyors… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“specifically and the perennial philosophy generally. Before we do the conscious work of self-development, we are the seeds of what we may… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians… — Shobana Copy Share Image
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image