Academic Philosophers Quotations
Matching Results for Academic Philosophers:
Lucien Levy-BruhlSourced. The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development. Quoted in Francois-Bernard Mache (1983, 1992).
G. E. M. Anscombe
G. E. M. Anscombe (18 March 1919 5 January 2001), born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, and also known as Elizabeth Anscombe, was an Irish-born British ...
Cornel West
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born 24 February 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy ...
Roger Scruton
Sourced. In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. "Why I became a conservative," The New Criterion (February 2003).
June 5
Quotes of the day from previous years: 2004 Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi. selected by Kalki; 2005 A study of the history ...
Robert Nozick
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself ...
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Jacques Barzun
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 25 June 1984), French philosopher and historian, professor at the College de France (Histoire des systemes de pensee) from ...
Aphorisms
This page is for quotes on the subject of Aphorisms. The word aphorism (literally "distinction" or "definition", from the Greek: aphorismos, aphorismos ap ...
S. I. Hayakawa
The cultural accomplishment of the ages a come to us as free gifts from the dead. These gifts, which none of us has done anything to earn, offer us not only the ...
Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to ...
Camille Paglia
Equal opportunity feminism, which I espouse, demands the removal of all barriers to woman's advance in the political and professional world a but not at the price ...
Robert Fulghum
My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the ...
Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. ... Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by ...
Mircea Eliade
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane... something sacred shows itself to us ...
John N. Gray
Sourced. To affirm that humans thrive in many different ways is not to deny that there are universal human values. Nor is it to reject the claim that there should be ...
John Maynard Keynes
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
Robertson Davies
Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.
This page remains as an archive of ideas, but is largely obsolete as a place to make proposals, as since June 2005 we have been developing policies where users can ...
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (25 February 1917 a 22 November 1993) was an English writer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing ...
Robert A. Heinlein
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Thomas Jefferson
If I am to succeed, the sooner I know it, the less uneasiness I shall have to go through. If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of ...
Noam Chomsky
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes ...
Richard Feynman
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Friedrich Hayek
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.
Roger Ebert
Meyer is an auteur whose every frame reflects his own obsessions. Like all serious artists, he doesn't allow any space between his work and his dream.
G. K. Chesterton
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
This page lists all "Quotes of the day" that have been chosen at Wikiquote, in chronological order, with the earliest quotes at the top. This can be very useful for ...
Abortion
Sourced A. Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. Edward Abbey, One Life at ...
|
[Hide]▼
www.jehsmith.com
124 x 150px
[source page]
academic philosophers ,
Tablet Magazine
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:26:45 -0700
... as well as composers and philosophers , in their family trees. And Israel can trace its mathematical lineage to the era predating statehood. As though symbolically planting something of the mathematical spirit of the academic hub Gettingen in the ...
[Hide]▲