“Imagine that one day you are out for a walk in the woods. Suddenly you see a small spaceship on the path… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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“Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity… — Bertnard Russell Copy Share Image
“Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to… — Seth Copy Share Image
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“(There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country’s philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Samsung and Apple seem to think that they're going to provide everything. Apple believes services will drive hardware, while Google wants to… — Noam Bardin Copy Share Image
“In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he was a Swan.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We are fully committed to upholding the highest standards of ethics and to rigorously maintaining the integrity of our research,’’ a hospital… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do… — Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a… — David Wong Copy Share Image
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“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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