“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“Those soapbubbles that kid Amuses himself with by blowing them from a straw Are transparently a whole philosophy. Clear, useless and fleeting… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“If we permit our imagination to traverse the obscure regions of possibility, we may doubtless imagine, according to the complexion of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now.… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“After examining the philosophies, the theories, and the practiced methods of influencing human behavior, I was shocked to learn the simplicity of… — Shad Helmstetter Copy Share Image
I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking… — Daryl Morey Copy Share Image
“that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I was told that even if I had years of sobriety, I would always be an addict, and I believed it. Since… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system.… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
“Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I can't live my life under the sort of "I cannot fail" philosophy, because then every time I do fail, which feels… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
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