There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive,… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin"… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is because we are through and through compounded of relationships with the world that for us the only way to become… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For someone who constantly comes across this problem in the course of his professional activities, the question whether philosophy has the status… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add to our stock of information,… — Edward Craig Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is thinking in slow motion. It breaks down, describes and assesses moves we ordinarily make at great speed - to do… — John Campbell Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we ascend. Whoever pursues this pass should… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Is God really real?”This is a perennial question for the philosophy of religion. Fortunately, the Pythons have answers to it. Perhaps too… — George A. Reisch Copy Share Image
“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in… — David Copy Share Image
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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