philosophy

"Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, "well, no, this administration w…"

"It has been a continuing theme of this book that our commitment to any approach to the problems of existence can enjoy no definitive justification. Its demands always exceed, immeasurably, its grounds…"

"One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus or Epicurus who, just because they had developed a philosophic…"

"This is the last programme in this natural history, and it's very different from all the others because it's been devoted to just one animal: ourselves. And that may have been a very misleading thing …"

"Religion merges into mysticism and metaphysics and philosophy. There have been great mystics, attractive figures, who cannot easily be disposed of as self-deluded fools. Yet, mysticism irritates me; i…"

"I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective."

"We can only hope that statisticians will return to the use of the simple, lucid reasoning of Bayes's conceptions, and accord to the likelihood theory its proper role."

"And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself."

"Certainly, the categories posited by a general semiotics can prove their power insofar as they provide a satisfactory working hypothesis to specific semiotics. However, they can also allow one to look…"

"It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war."

"I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept."

"One can surrender one’s rational will to beliefs or habits as easily as to individuals, for essentially the same reasons, and with essentially the same results. Ideas have a mystery and power of their…"

"I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. … I cannot be…"

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation."

"Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy."

"The law is reason unaffected by desire."

"Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit."

"Speculative philosophy as the realisation of God is the positing of God, and at the same time his cancellation or negation; theism and at the same time atheism: for God – in the sense of theology – is…"

"Javon's definitely a go-to guy as far as helping out in the community. He's not seeking the attention. Everything he does is for the right reasons, and he's willing to take the time, which he doesn't …"