philosophy

"When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness."

"The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked."

"“Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright?"

"Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the well-being of all of us."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"The predictions of physical theories for the most part concern situations where initial conditions can be precisely specified. If such initial conditions are not found in nature, they can be arranged.…"

"A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him."

"Is it with us a compensatory fact that, being more stupid in the mass, we shoot up higher, when we do shoot up, in dazzling concentrations of intellectual power and so produce what we describe as "gen…"

"All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame."

"Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one …"

"A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus."

"I have always, from my earliest youth, rejoiced in the felicity of my fellow-men; and have ever considered it as the indispensable able duty of every member of society to promote, as far as in him lie…"

"If you look over the history of regulation — railroad regulation, financial regulation and so on — you find that, quite commonly, it's either initiated by the economic concentrations that are being re…"

"Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?"

"You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove."

"Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal."

"So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experi…"

"“Ted has normal-people teeth because he is old and grew up before this part of the world got Facebooked. After that, the people with education fled to places like Ames, Des Moines, Iowa City. Which in…"

"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."

"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anyt…"