“He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“People went up and down Sixth Avenue with the word motherfucker in their heads. They felt no emotions, had no sensation of… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“so when asked Who was Prophet's grandson Hussain? I replied : Imbibe in the name of Hussain with his name comes the… — Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh Copy Share Image
“The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is,… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra property and calling it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically,… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES!… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“There was a posh girl in my year at Cambridge, also a philosopher, who gave names to every significant possession in her… — Harry Bingham Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Renaissance Humanism, which under Petrarch’s formation and tutelage vindicated the importance of poetry and rhetoric as effectors of an intimate bond between… — Charles Trinkaus Copy Share Image
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off… — Allison Moorer Copy Share Image
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“During the late nights, when my eyes are a little sunken, and heart is a little full. When my brain is a… — Jasleen Kaur Gumber Copy Share Image
“There are two philosophies when it comes to getting young children to sleep. There is 'sleep training,' which basically involves putting your… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take… — William James Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you… — Patrick Harpur Copy Share Image
“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other… — John Hendricks Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image