Addiction Quote by Bertrand Russell

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it…

— Bertrand Russell

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private…

— Richard Dawkins

“Someone, and no matter who, inhabits my head like it’s an empty house, he enters, he leaves, he bangs each door behind him, powerless…

— Claude Esteban

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages…

— Alan Watts

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

— John Twelve Hawks

“I love what Sarah Young wrote in her book, Jesus Calling. She wrote it as if God were speaking: Make Me the focal point…

— Tina Samples

Any human being has private thoughts.

— Alan Dershowitz

“And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone’s private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.”

— Nora Roberts

“Should we go into people’s inner and private thoughts and motivations, we would see that their wishes and hopes are almost invariably at someone…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“After years of watching adversaries comb through her public records for any hint of a scandal, and after accessing her own aides’ e-mails, Hillary…

— Jonathan Allen