“The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.” SelfChoicesColorBearsSelf LoveTastePhilosophicalInspiredPhilosopherIndifferenceReasoningPreferenceRelishFondnessPalate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ThinkingHappinessChoicesFearAbilityAnxietyWeaponsStressPhilosophicalCaringTensionReliefAnxiousRelaxationRelaxedStressedCopingStressfulStress ReliefStress ManagementGreatest LoveCalmingStress FreeStressorsAnxiety And FearStress And AnxietyWork StressReduce StressUnder StressLife StressPragmatistsAbility To ChooseStress RelievingStress And LifeStressful LifeRelaxation And StressNo StressInspirational StressStress RelieverStress LevelsDealing With StressStress ReleaseStressful DayLess Stress Author:William James
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.” InspirationalMotivationalChoicesConflictPhilosophicalDecision MakingProcrastinationIndecisionChoices You MakeMaking ChoicesPower Of ChoiceDecisions MadeDecisions You MakeMake The Right ChoiceChoices MadeWise DecisionChoices And DecisionsWise ChoicesSmart Decisions Author:William James
“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.” HumansFactsProblemFacesChoicesHeavenCommonSeaSolutionsPhilosophicalHonestlySillySignificanceFloatingFree ChoiceJellyfishDeep Philosophical Author:Allen W. Wood
“Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.” CharacterChoicesStagePhilosophicalRaisesTheatreFree WillPhilosophical Questions Author:Mark Ravenhill
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.” MenChoicesPhilosophicalResponsible Book:Existentialism Source: Existentialism
“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.” ThinkingPersonsMatterChoicesNatureAnimalEthicsTraditionPhilosophicalInjuryCustomsVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsRootedTormentVegetarianismVegetarian HealthAnimal WorldAnimal LifeHalosThinking ManVegan HealthAnimals In NatureMoral EthicsNature And AnimalsThinking Person Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.” KnowsWantSaidMatterChoicesCatPhilosophicalForksFork In The RoadLife Decision Author:Lewis Carroll
“Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.” MenWorldLooksPoliticalChoicesGivenChanceMoralNovelStrugglePathRightsModernHe ManExpressionRevolutionEnlightenmentPhilosophicalIndependentCivil RightsLinksDeniedDaringAutonomyAstonishingPublicationLivelyProvocativeFrench RevolutionNew Look Author:Natalie Zemon Davis