Philosophy Quotes

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Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the… — William O. Douglas
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig von Mises
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you;… — Gary North
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle… — Galileo Galilei
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. — Mortimer Adler
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori. — Immanuel Kant
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know. — Bertrand Russell
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim

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