I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps permissible here to draw attention to a distinction made by Martin Heidegger, who speaks of the duality of calculating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
“It’s your crap that’s endearing. It’s the basis of any relationship, way beyond even the choice of who wins on to whom.… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But everything we see or hear offensive to our feelings and derogatory to the human character should lead to other reflections than… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When someone doesn’t acknowledge the miraculous conditions of the cosmos, and instead attributes all the systemization and orderliness that we observe all… — Gevin Giorbran Copy Share Image
I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring more wine… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making… — Laura Ziskin Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Living as human being and as a divinity. moving from tension into relaxation, from relaxation into trance, from trance into a more… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization,… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Very obviously, the electorate as a mass has not imbibed the philosophy of 'think national, act local' or even 'think big and… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
“Without an awareness of blind spots, traditional approaches to ethics won’t be particularly useful in improving behavior. If, like most people, you… — Max H. Bazerman Copy Share Image
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The world needs people like you,' Simmon said in the tone of voice that let me know he was turning philosophical. 'You… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Are you a god, then?" Sokrates asked. "What is a god?" Ikaros threw back instantly. They both sat up and leaned forward… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
