I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
“The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well… — T. Greenwood Copy Share Image
“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
“They seemed to have all the ingredients for successful living: philosophy, faith, a sense of humor (they could laugh at themselves), clear-cut… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“An individual is a complex, indefinable object. And so only the individual possesses something that can without lying be called existence. As… — Han Ryner Copy Share Image
“This is the foundation of the philosophy of Futuwwah. Futuwwah is a state of mind. It means placing other people above oneself.… — Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami Copy Share Image
“Think about your dreams. Think of every detail of what you want to manifest. Imagine every person included in your plans. Sense… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“That the Sadian fantasy situates itself better in the bearers of Christian ethics than elsewhere is what our structural landmarks allow us… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm constantly tangled in some kind of bureaucratic web and constantly making the tangible philosophical. Constantly trying to win… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“In our lives, the true assets are not money but memories. Always remember to touch every one you meet with appropriate love,… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The day you shoot something, everything changes. You still have the same overall vision and approach. You create a world that you're… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
“…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Youth is lies. Youth is evil. Those who incessantly celebrate their teenage years are lying both to themselves and to those around… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“In terms of insight practice, a lawyer who is terrible at insight practices but tries to do them anyway is vastly superior… — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
