Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure her independence would survive against the full onslaught of his wilfulness. But she loved him – anyway and every… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
“If we have no evidence of what happens after life, then there are infinite logical possibilities. Since there is only one kind… — Aidan Crowe Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I think,” said Ethel, breaking in, “the philosophy is this: I believe that it is a trying life. I know teaching takes… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new.… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“In my life are many windows and many graves. Sometimes they exchange roles: then a window is closed forever, then by way… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens.… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Moreover, philosophizing—if by that we broadly mean the critical investigation of deeply perplexing questions, such as what is the best way to… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
“The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into… — Graham Harman Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“He will know better when he has outgrown this same callow trick of honesty, and learnt of the great goddess Detraction how… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image