“But mostly what we think of as the 'meaning' of life concerns the style of the private autobiography we each write and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The violence of Hegel’s writing style consists in not allowing the reader to translate the conflicts of a proposition into the higher… — Katrin Pahl Copy Share Image
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of… — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
“The secret of the Witch Doctor’s power lies in the fact that man needs an integrated view of life, a philosophy, whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human… — John Maddox Roberts Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
In one sense, I wanted to study philosophy and theology, getting into the history of the Bible. I went through that for,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades… — Egor Kraft Copy Share Image
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been… — James Payn Copy Share Image
“ The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Rather than being confined to a separate dimension, martial arts should be an extension of our way of living, of our philosophies,… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“Society often sells us a narrow definition of meaning, equating it with productivity or status. ... But a meaningful life is often… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the strangest of subjects: it aims at rigour and yet is unable to establish any results; it attempts to deal… — Kit Fine Copy Share Image
“When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad… — John Durant Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“The materialist philosophy says that in a godless world all we need do to overthrow the laws of economics and the limits… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“As we already pointed out, 'special' means 'restricted to Inertial Frames of Reference', i.e. this theory cannot describe the Universe from an… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it.… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
