As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The smells are very strong on 'Game of Thrones': the incense, the fire, the heat of all the burns. The smell of… — Eugene Simon Copy Share Image
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are… — Alan Haselhurst Copy Share Image
“One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by… — Winy Maas Copy Share Image
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. . . . You… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I think about the most when I consider my father's philosophies is attaining that third stage of… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
“If living philosophy was dead in Greek and had, furthermore, failed to be transplanted and to acquire an independent status in other… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I just want to dominate. When I say dominate, I'm talking about me getting a finish or me breaking my opponent. When… — Dillon Danis Copy Share Image
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Wither knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The readers of Isabel's journal were affected by the conversations within its covers-if nothing else, the livingroom of their moral imagination became… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to open the window To see the fields and the river. It’s also not enough to not be blind… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
I admire Arsenal and the philosophy that the young players have. Liverpool, with their Spanish players, they also have an incredible squad.… — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
“In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a… — Michael Munro Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“A privilege to live in conflict with one’s times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image