The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Peace does not mean the absence of war or the presence of abundance. It means the acceptance of tolerance, appreciation of diversity,… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Restraint “There are three things that must always act restrained. Even five that should not use violence as their final word: The… — D.J. Kenny Copy Share Image
No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Martians have a win/lose philosophy—I want to win, and I don’t care if you lose. As long as each Martian took care… — John Gray Copy Share Image
High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof… — Lucius Beebe Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door,… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how… — Doug Lemov Copy Share Image
“The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness.… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“..."science" as defined in our culture has a philosophical bias that needs to be exposed. On the one hand, science is empirical.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what beauty actually is, you know, being born as a girl is a beauty, growing up and getting… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Look here, it's all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white…It's a particular passion of young men… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A person gathers all their resources to compose a foursquare philosophy for surviving each day, an engagement driving at a union of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“the outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
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