“I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Albert Camus introduced his philosophy of the absurd, in which man searches for meaning in a fundamentally meaningless world. In this context,… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Great kings and queens know to learn from those who had have great personal success in the area they taught. If you… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“This left, which strangely echoes a libertarian and even neoliberal ethic of ant-statism, is nurtured intellectually by thinkers such as Michel Foucault… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that… — John Wright Copy Share Image
“Researchers also trace the dramatic increase in addiction to a shift in health-care philosophy that started to emphasize treating a patient’s pain… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been as instructive in exploring the notion of authenticity as relearning the work of the great philosophers Aristotle and Plato.… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Historical accounts of philosophy deal with both the chronological development of ideas over time and the timeliness of those ideas in response… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Ever since we discussed and became focused with the pitch count, it's getting worse. It's like if I told you every single… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is… — Richard Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“A philosophical discussion ensued about right and wrong, and good and bad. Also about things to be ashamed of and things to… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
