philosophy

"If our intention now is to reveal classical unreason on its own terms, outside of its ties with dreams and error, it must be understood not as a form of reason that is somehow diseased, lost or mad, b…"

"It was to little purpose to excuse the matter, by saying, that the badness of the Verses was a kind of Testimony that they were made by a God, who nobly scorn'd to be tyed up to rules and to be confin…"

"I’ve shied away from the ‘women in tech’ question because it’s always what people ask about. I think as soon as you’re a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representati…"

"I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted by it one time. When I was painting at Céret and at Cagnes . I yielded to its influence in spite of myself, and the results were not e…"

"When we go through the list of external differences which appear to divide men, we find literally nothing which can authorise their division into superior and inferior beings, into masters and pariahs…"

"I dream of being able to score another goal against England... this time with the right hand."

"Mystics of every faith report contacts with a world that startles and transforms them with its dazzling darkness. Zen stands squarely in this camp, its only uniqueness being that it makes breaking the…"

"I believe that planting these oaks is necessary not only in biospheric terms, that is to say, in the context of matter and ecology, but in that it will raise ecological consciousness-raise it increasi…"

"I possess only a single bare, frame-less icon of our times , and it is difficult to struggle. But my happiness in not being like you will give me the strength to go further and further into the empty …"

"If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough."

"Whatever a being may own is of no importance, of no concern at all. It is gone and useless. All we have is our breath. I shall fight for it with teeth and nails."

"Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea."

"'Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner."

"The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness"

"Thus Bradley reasoned—thus most of us reason; not by what might be possible; but by what has fallen within the range of our experience."

"She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content."

"The forms of social organization produced the market, not the reverse... Instead of markets calling forth efficient forms of social organization, political and social interactions produced the structu…"

"By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?"

"John Perry Barlow 2.0" by Brian Doherty at ReasonOnline"

"What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism — as opposed to the mindless, i…"