With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
“We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing… — Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile… — William_Powers Copy Share Image
I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
“In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
“we live our lives from the "inside", from the vantage point of our own personal mini-cam on life. This gives us privileged… — Gregory Bassham Copy Share Image
Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
“It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“This causation exists as a streamed organization of constantly fluid potential. Anything that can be must first hold the streaming potential to… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics… — John W. Rogers, Jr Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always… — Wong Kiew Kit Copy Share Image
“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Answers are shooting stars in a nebulous firmament. Every burst of outspoken enlightenment fails to betray the vast timeless riddles of their… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Remembrance was a Buddhist philosopher’s trick. Rather than asking her mind to search for a solution to a potentially impossible challenge, Vittoria… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Magic doesn’t mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can’t… — Anurag Bhatt Copy Share Image
