“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that,… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that… — Hamidreza Bagheri Copy Share Image
“Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
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¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
àTheir saying thought is a thing and all knowledge past present and future are contained in it. And all our minds are… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve "the problem of evil," yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Lao Tse, village philosopher, believed that the richer a nation is, the poorer it becomes. He believed that knowing war teaches peace,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“To reform a religion, one must at first be able to recognize the follies of that religion, then only one can take… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have… — Chris Collins Copy Share Image
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