The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The holistic doctrine of Karma gives us a reason for everything and everything for a reason. Karma, as a philosophy, maintains hope… — John Mumford Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The… — William James Copy Share Image
“Some series teach us that ethnic features must be "fixed," by drastic means if necessary. Plastic surgeons with questionable ethics give insecure… — Jennifer L. Pozner Copy Share Image
“Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be… — Jinasena Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The iPod, like the Walkman cassette player before it,C allows us to listen to our music wherever we want. Previously, recording technology… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Before heading out on to the pitch, Johan Cruyff gave his players a simple instruction: ‘Go out there and enjoy yourselves.’ It… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics -… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“When will you let go and freely wander? When will you see the beauty of the flowers despite the stinging of the… — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
“Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason;… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“The point then is not that there is a lack of public admiration for poetry and philosophy in the modern world, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love requires learning to love ourselves in the mirror, and learning to look other people in the eye. Buddhism, in turn, asks… — Ethan Nichtern Copy Share Image
How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and… — Robert Kalfin Copy Share Image
“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
