Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — Wittgenstein Ludwig Copy Share Image
“I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I’d always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
There is one common philosophy, one thing that you can do no matter who you are or what you look like: You… — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“Claire Colebrook following Gilles Deleuze differentiates a philosophical concept from an everyday concept. Rather help fully for my purposes she uses the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“The notion of God, on the other hand, however inferior it may be in clearness to those mathematical notions so current in… — William James Copy Share Image
“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“What is more, in what follows we look at the capacity of the other schools to deal with some of the same… — Tom Rockmore Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“--From "A Familiar Preface", 1912(PR,pp,19-20): “At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in some way or other can expect to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion,… — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
“What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises… — Harsha Yardi Copy Share Image
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such… — John McTaggart Copy Share Image
Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“But why hadn't the TV set reverted instead to formless metals and plastics? Those, after all, were its constituents; it had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In his Meditations on First Philosophy in 1641, he described a powerful, clever and deceitful personification “who has directed his entire effort… — Harris Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Humanity has committed its greatest crimes in the name of the Truth. Men and women were burned alive, entire civilisations were destroyed,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The wall at Le Philosophe is covered with French philosophers, and supposedly, if you are able to name all of them, they… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are so many people living the best life money can buy. I want to slap some of these people. Some of… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to… — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image