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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.
He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.
Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.
There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.