The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Philosophy needs vision and argument… there is something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains arguments, however good, which are not inspired… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that,… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that… — Hamidreza Bagheri Copy Share Image
“Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,… — Tom Stoppard 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… — Issac Newton Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
“To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
àTheir saying thought is a thing and all knowledge past present and future are contained in it. And all our minds are… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Any philosopher, any international economist may talk to me about the methods I have introduced and the thoughts behind them. Illiteracy is… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
