“It seems that rather than abandon their worldview, many young people are abandoning their lives altogether. I am disturbed to see the… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“Although interpreted as nonreligious, chiropractic is premised on a vitalistic, harmonial philosophy and fulfills many of the same functions as religion. More… — Candy Gunther Brown Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Do not say that this draft, analogous to the American Constitution, is alien to the European culture and philosophy, and therefore should… — Leo Klinkers Herbet Tombeur Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Red tapes sometimes are put to save you from harm or danger, but sometimes are put to stop you from being powerful… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“High Self High Self includes our moral virtues, philosophical ideas and spiritual values. It is the essence of sensitivity and feeling, the… — David A. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Worst of all was Freud. While not technically a brooding philosopher, Freud did much to shape our views on happiness. He once… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller Copy Share Image
“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Through it all, the words of John Peel echo strongly within me: you have support the music that's being made now. You… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Peter Singer, a moral philosopher and professor at Princeton University points out, however, that there are in fact three freedoms at stake… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image