Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
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“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the… — Nehemiah Grew Copy Share Image
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“The great philosophical question goes: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
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“The topic of disinterested, non-calculating, and purposeless love for the sake of love is central to mysticism as such. To love God,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being there even if… — Q. M. Sidd Copy Share Image
“a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
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The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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