... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“From the point of view of pure logic or philosophy, there will often be a dialectical tension between two concepts. For example...… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Even though we think we have individuality, we still have a herd mentality. We often follow the dare-devil knowing that it is… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to face the fears, take the steps, do the work, be more than you thought you ever could,… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most… — James Ladyman Copy Share Image
“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet) Good poetry is but philosophy, Good philosophy is but poetry. It is only the majority amateurs, Who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion has no physical conception of the world; it has no interest in a physical explanation, which can never be given but… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Sir James Mackintosh had said that the powers of a man's mind were proportionate to the quantity of coffee he… — Phil Ford Copy Share Image
“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Adorno, Theodor W Copy Share Image
“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Philosophy doesn’t travel at the same speed technology does. It takes a man forty years to realize what it took his father… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are… — Peter singer Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
