This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We become philosophical when our inherited understanding can no longer account for our experience and we are forced to create for ourselves… — James P. Danaher Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The term ‘political correctness’ has evolved out of the Marxist and Freudian philosophies of the 1930s to become a tool for multicultural-ism,… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“An abstruse subject, I should conceive,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘Very, Sir,’ responded Pott, looking intensely sage. ‘He CRAMMED for it, to use… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“This Personality Ethic essentially took two paths: one was human and public relations techniques, and the other was positive mental attitude (PMA).… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and… — Simon May Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“where the wisdom of deliberation comes in. It is that deliberation that is one of the principal features of American conservatism as… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The kind Apollo (ho phílos)," he says, "seems to heal the questions of life, and to resolve them, by the rules he… — T.R. Glover Copy Share Image
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — Howard Phillips Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“In the ancient Book of History, upon which Confucius himself based his philosophy, it is said... The people must be cherished, The… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“To cut a long story short, thus far the contribution of logical philosophy to metaphysics has been entirely negative. The verdict seems… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
