“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
“Nothing is stopping you except the names and identities that you've given to yourself. If you identify yourself as a scientist, you… — Shunya Copy Share Image
I remember Arsene Wenger very well from our time in Japan. I like the way his teams play, with an offensive mentality… — Zico Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“As every schoolboy knows, comics do not stand alone at microphones in the dark. Indeed, we cannot even read them in the… — R.C. Harvey Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and… — Francois-Noel Babeuf Copy Share Image
“Christianity had, in Nietzsche’s account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
“Philosophy always arrives too late to do any such teaching. As the thought of the world, philosophy appears only in the period… — hegel Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You're asking me to give insight into my personality or my philosophy of acting. I just don't think that deeply about it.… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
“The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theorizing, but instead… — Magnus Vinding Copy Share Image
Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Önerme şudur: Beyin, sinir sistemi ve duyu organlarının işlevi aslında eleyicidir, üretici değil. Her insan, her an kendi başına gelenleri anımsamak ve… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
“The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“I have mentioned that no one offers the name of a philosopher when I ask the question, “Who helped you most?” Most… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We’re very bold in our proclamations of our own… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Her philosophy is very empowering—that everything we want or need in life we can have, and we can get for ourselves. (She… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What often happens with these Islamist regimes, there are differing philosophies in terms of how fast to go in getting to where… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
