If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Finding The Real You Is An Enlightening Experience. You become Self-Sufficient And Do Things For Yourself, For Once. You Are No longer… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depends… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some… — W.T. Stace Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
“The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Unlike the first two Critiques, which ground the doctrinal metaphysical systems of natural science and morals, the Critique of Judgment has no specific metaphysical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
“In the tremendous breaking forth of a whole people, in which all degrees, tempers and characters are confounded, delivering themselves, by a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Branding Through Customer Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Mine’: what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Piaget is also concerned with attempts of Maine de Biran, Bergson, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to construct a philosophical psychology as opposed to… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity… — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew… — Chris Bell Copy Share Image
“When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and… — John R. Perry Copy Share Image
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it; or because it is in your traditions; or because many speak… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
“Jürgen Habermas currently ranks as one of the most influential philosophers in the world. Bridging continental and Anglo-American traditions of thought, he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image