“I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both… — Arthur C. Danto Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Reason is independent of all external authority, is outwardly autonomous; it is not, however, inwardly independent in relation to the whole life… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Doubting free will is not just a philosophical exercise. It has practical implications. If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies we… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The… — William James Copy Share Image
“He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has… — Boethius Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised… — Karen Hughes Copy Share Image
It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
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Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others.… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism -… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
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“But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
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