Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
“The title for this story comes from the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who gave Part IV of his work Ethics the title Of… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic).… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Ought not a Minister to have, First, a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound judgment, and a capacity of reasoning with… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Any philosopher, any international economist may talk to me about the methods I have introduced and the thoughts behind them. Illiteracy is… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, I argue that ethics is not simply about responsible actions in relation to human experiences of the world; rather, it is… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Everyone should try write two philosophical observations of about 300 words a day, to keep the brain fit. The brain is a… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image