philosophy

"I was still “at the church door”. Yet in belief, in the clarification of my philosophy, I had taken an important step. I no longer wavered between alternative views of the world, to be put on or taken…"

"Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are…"

"I am not addressing my own people, nor my fellow citizens of the holy Romans, but those who are now become citizens of demons by reason of their evil works. They have chosen, by their hostile deeds, t…"

"Every man who has thought, knows not only how little he knows, but how little every other human being knows, and how ignorant, after all, the world must be."

"Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest. From the dawn of civilization man has speculated about the nature of the starry heavens and the origin of the world…"

"The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it was largely the response to the more conventional or superficial aspects of such ex…"

"I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly."

"We return to our analysis of qualities. Something preserves itself throughout this flux, something that passes into other things, but also stands against them as a being for itself. This something can…"

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

"Historically, moves to new ways of moral decision making depend on and occur in pockets of people of good will, who can explore with each other novel ways of relating without threatening or being thre…"

"I don't sit down to write something politically or to challenge stereotypes. Being who I am, almost everything I do will be political, almost everything I do will be a challenge to those stereotypes…"

"And it is here that India's mind boggling variety links up to her infmite soul... India includes so much because her soul being infmite excludes nothing. It goes without saying that the universe that …"

"What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear."

"Work hard and you will make it; at the end, it's all about your design philosophy."

"The reason why the music is important is that it's an art form— an ancient art form— that takes in the mythology of our people."

"The logic of maximum performance is no doubt inconsistent in many ways, particularly with respect to contradiction in the socio-economic field: it demands both less work and more . But our incredulity…"

"Simple music and lyrics, chronologically"

"I was never interested in being just modern – I mean in creating a new style. I simply painted in whatever style seemed to suit me best. But Kandinsky was a thinker and had to express his ideas in wor…"

"I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide—the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enoug…"

"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development—in which they were transferred from theology to the the…"