Nature Quote by Harry Frankfurt Download Open image “As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.” — Harry Frankfurt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Obliged Philosopher Philosophy Wilderness
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was. — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return. — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance of the teeming wilderness that is the soil (even the act of regarding it as a wilderness) is no impediment to nurturing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no… — J.M. McDermott Copy Share Image
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth,… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
