philosophy

"If ‘we are the government,’ then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical; it is also ‘voluntary’ on the part of the individual concerned… if the government conscr…"

"Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat."

"The search of reason ends at the shore of the known."

"The hardest part of being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you are constantly referred to as a clown. How do you even know that you want to be a clown? I guess you just get to a point where your…"

"How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothi…"

"Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it."

"I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions: ..."

"Fear is the enemy of logic."

"Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the…"

"o the prophet, that supermundane soul who has heard the secrets and intentions of the universe, the grand confederation of all the graceful races and species of the earth into one universal scheme of …"

"An Epistemological Nightmare by Raymond Smullyan, 1982."

"Whereas the entire meaning of the Quran must easily be interpreted by the lives of Muslims, Islam's followers abandoned its essence."

"Moral indignation, … the intervention into the affairs of others because we think them wicked, must necessarily be replaced by humanitarianism, which, using the language of therapy and healing, interv…"

"To a man, sex is like a car accident, anyway, and determining a female orgasm is like being asked "What did you see after the car went out of control?" "Well, I remember I heard a lot of screeching no…"

"The transition from Hegel to Marx is, in all respects, a transition to an essentially different order of truth, no to be interpreted in terms of philosophy. We shall see that all the philosophical con…"

"Always fatuity, vulgarity, as soon as human passion is touched. Just as some poetry is of the eye and some of the ear, so Keats is of the palate. Not only has he constant reference to its pleasures, b…"

"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."

"I'll confess it is rather fun being courted by your own husband."

"The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,"

"On the Diffraction of an Object-glass with Circular Aperture" read Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 5, p. 283."