I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact the Kabbalah rests upon the exoteric Judeo-Christian tradition. It consists of metaphysics and philosophy, from which can be drawn a… — Robert Ambelain Copy Share Image
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing,… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible,… — Nathan Winograd Copy Share Image
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“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“The word logos itself is a prime example, beginning its history as a word charged with religious power, and referring to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
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While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Don't be concerned if you haven't been aware of these natural laws before. Once you begin to incorporate a philosophy into your… — chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
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“I knew that the languages which one learns there are necessary to understand the works of the ancients; and that the delicacy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
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