“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that,… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything… — Lupe Fiasco 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
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Besides robbing us of health and vitality, emotions constitute the greatest obstacle to spiritual cultivation by diverting energy and attention from internal… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
“You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no… — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness… — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an… — Frederick Turner Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
