“When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection,… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Right thinking is necessarily an open process, and the only science and history of full value to men consist of what is… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“To physically overcome death – is that not the goal? – we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah.… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
“One of Langdon’s Harvard colleagues—a solemn physics professor—had become so fed up with philosophy majors attending his Origins of the Universe seminar… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit… — Bill Struth Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is both a skill and an attitude toward living that originated thousands of years ago as part of Buddhist philosophy. According… — Melanie Greenberg Copy Share Image
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of… — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape… — Tal Ben-Shahar Copy Share Image
“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“All the fields will be going into distortion—music, philosophy, literature, everything. The enemy comes in to distort it—the rhythm and beauty are… — John Wright Follette Copy Share Image