Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
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“It is my life, your life, not philosophy, not meditation alone, not mysticism, not preaching or hearing, but DOING; doing every day… — Thornton Chase Copy Share Image
“I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We can and should create a happy society, simply because we care. Unfortunately, I have found, this is not obvious to many… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“We trusted our instincts, and stuck to the two tenets of my philosophy: Sell things for more than you pay for them,… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Restraint: “There are three things that must always act restrained. Even five that should not use violence as their final word: The… — D.J. Kenny Copy Share Image
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Though we run across exceptions, philosophical novels where explanation holds interest, the temptation to explain is one that should almost always be… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in… — Steve Lohr Copy Share Image
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There are strong people and there are people who claim to be strong. Strong people can conquer and survive anything , but… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you can’t lead and you can’t deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far… — Rich Nugent Copy Share Image
“Media are really nothing more than extensions of us. It is we, not the media, who are metaphysical. Metaphysics is part and… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian. His scepticism about the power of reasoning, which applied no less… — Efraim Podoksik Copy Share Image
“Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Falsafa ya Usawa kwa Watu na Vitu Vyote ya Yin-Yang ya Kichina ni falsafa inayotumiwa na Wachina, kujifunza sanaa ya mapigano na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
I realized early on that it was important to have those values, a morality and ethics that come with being Southern girl.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively… — Michael David-Fox Copy Share Image
“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say,… — René Descartes 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
“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
“...Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
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