..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Are we going to debate philosophy or should I just kiss and make up with the demon now? Let it get a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a destination - it is not a point in the future which you reach through discipline and efforts. Truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“[Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which… — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
“Work hard, you can be Millionaire. Work hard and smart, you can be Billionaire. Trillionaire?? Get ready to beat capitalism in its… — Chinmay Jangid Copy Share Image
“Multiple species, with multiple viewpoints and racial philosophies, simply cannot hold power together for long. The dominant voice must certainly be wise… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“the present book’s inquiry into the elements of an adequate philosophy of consciousness leads to the conclusion that consciousness can be understood… — Eugene Webb Copy Share Image
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high paying professions; in other words… — Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
“To distract himself, he formulated a proposition. A philosophical proposition? Maybe, but tending towards "weak thought"--exhausted thought, in fact. He even gave… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and… — Gary H. Stern Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Despite such significant departures from the antimetaphysical and ahistorical heritage of the Vienna Circle, it still cannot be said that philosophers of… — Helena Sheehan Copy Share Image
Every woman wants a man who can love her mind, body and soul. A man who respects her values, virtues and ethics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed”… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
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