Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“My vocation in life is to wonder about at the nature of the universe. This leads me into philosophy, psychology, religion, and… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“She then laid more aggressively into her ex-partner and his philosophy, which she felt was disconnected from the reality that she had… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“It is disappointing how people tend not to read a broad range of material. When the poets only read poetry, the historians… — Anthony Leskov Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as… — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
“Manuals of wisdom literature were taught to children and contained all the essentials for being a valued member of the community, including ethics… — Sorita D'este Copy Share Image
“It may be objected that the meaning of names can guide us at most only to the opinions, possibly the foolish and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said… — Roselyn Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a… — Frigyes Karinthy Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“Slava, working in concert with the philosophy of the nation that had taken them in—good works as the by-product of self-interest—was able… — Boris Fishman Copy Share Image
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that… — Hyde Copy Share Image
I like silly things. I think that "silly-stupid" or "stupid-smart" might be my philosophy, which is to combine a veneer of intelligence… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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