My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of the world. In the… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“He didn't even bother trying to justify himself to his internal medical ethical police -- he was guilty, pure and simple, of… — shukyou Copy Share Image
D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes.… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact -… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
“I used to size people up to see whether they were a good advert for meditation. Then at some point it clicked… — Tessa Watt Copy Share Image
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not an idea; a philosophy written about freedom is not freedom. Either one is free or one is not. One… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it… — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
“In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I believe there’s a place on the brink of suffering where all of one’s emotions gather like great philosophers. They reason amongst… — Nancy Stephan Copy Share Image
“CONVERSATION in which neither party is listening to the other was dubbed a “duologue” by Abraham Kaplan, a philosopher who died in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The value of a philosopher’s thought is not in its answers—no philosopher has any that are more helpful than saying nothing at… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“What I call my philosophy of teaching is in fact a philosophy of learning. It comes out of Plato, modified. Before true… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“In life, humans are propelled by uncertainty—by the ignorance and blindness of what lies ahead. We cling to the hope that our… — Raed Copy Share Image
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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