Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence --… — Hans Silvester Copy Share Image
“The bond between husband and wife is a strong one. Suppose the man had hunted her out and brought her back. The… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a kind in which Dasein… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does.… — Pirsig, Robert M Copy Share Image
“This car was speically ordered for you, Mr. Flamel." There was a pause and the voice added, "The author of one of… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Darkness is, in reality, nothing but the lack of light. So, darkness is natural, light is unnatural. Yet, it is light that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It is my life, your life, not philosophy, not meditation alone, not mysticism, not preaching or hearing, but DOING; doing every day… — Thornton Chase Copy Share Image
“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from… — Aditya Chakrabortty Copy Share Image
Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Philosophy needs vision and argument… there is something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains arguments, however good, which are not inspired… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
