Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare. "Exactly so," said Alice.… — lewis carrol Copy Share Image
I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Most of what we believe, we were never asked to choose. The language we think in. The identity we carry. The meaning… — Navneet Singhal Copy Share Image
“Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Tarkovsky was right. The responsibility of the artist is to stir people’s hearts and minds toward loving others: to find the light… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
The people I met for the first time in the period when I was making films like 'Tum Bin,' 'Ra.One,' 'Dus,' 'Cash'… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In Beauvoir’s writing, the emancipation of women, an emancipation that on her view can come to full flower only in the wake… — Nancy Bauer Copy Share Image
“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“Initially, she responded by turning inward, pondering questions about the meaning of life and her place in the world. This led her… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional… — Michael S. Greve Copy Share Image
“What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees*… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Life is a hole, that's my philosophy. One step forward and boom, up to the armpits. You grab a tree, somebody stretches… — Lynne Alexander Copy Share Image
Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There's no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It's just a shame that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
