“as might a dung beetle stripped of its exoskeleton. Having set out to change the world and rule it through mass murder… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Efficiency," of course, is futile … It has no philosophy for incidents before they happen; therefore it has no power of choice.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Typically efforts to address values and ethics in business education and leadership development tend to focus on building Awareness and teaching Analysis.… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
There isn't a specific Trump philosophy. That's why you're never gonna be able to pin Trump down on. He doesn't have a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it. The philosopher dies sententiously--the pharisee ostentatiously--the simple-hearted humbly--the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a… — Haley Bonar Copy Share Image
“From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
“Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music -… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
“As late as 1950, the National Association of Real Estate Boards’ code of ethics warned that “a Realtor should never be instrumental… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“It showed a tiny baby girl floating in a clear glass vessel. The baby held a silver rose in one hand, a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment… — William James Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“For me, the right to claim Question One of the Heidelberg Catechism as my own, as the most profound statement of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image