“Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in… — William James Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
“The development of human civilization over the course of millennia was really fascinating. Let us imagine, however, how high a level of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“In this [turn toward mathematics Al-Kindi] was clearly influenced by Proclus’s Elements of Theology, a partial translation of which he commissioned. Proclus… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected… — William Prout Copy Share Image
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“I refer to the Gospel account in which Christ weeps at the grave of his friend Lazarus. We need to pause and… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“For the minister, who was far from considering himself a radical on questions of ethics, not all scoundrels were equal; their degree… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short,… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The Active Life If an expert does not have some problem to vex him, he is unhappy! If a philosopher's teaching is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
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