philosophy

"Not being stupid is important."

"It feels unsettling to be walking out and about, and have people look at you with a formed impression even before they get to know you. It’s a bit like being an animal in a zoo."

": "My playing Indy was mentioned to me about only six weeks before shooting started, but being second choice wasn't at all offensive. I would always assume that it would be normal for a director - onc…"

"People treat reason as if it were the most minor and harmful aspect of a whole human being. It is as if a soldier standing guard were to say to himself: “What good would my rifle be I were now to be a…"

"What's unfortunate is that most people regard the great leapers as being only the short guys who could dunk," said the 7-1 1/16 Wilt Chamberlain. "My sergeant was higher than Michael Jordan's. When I …"

"We call "divergent" all the systems of ML of the last century that challenge some aspect of the "classical" ML Rather, we call here as "hyperdivergent" those logical projects that present logic in a w…"

"Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming i…"

"A System of Synthetic Philosophy"

"It is with philosophy as with just intonation on a piano, if you get everything quite straight and on all fours in one department, in perfect tune, it is delightful so long as you keep well in the mid…"

"The talks are clearly not going anywhere. If they are going to include permanent membership of a customs union then frankly we would be better off staying in the EU then we would have a voice in the t…"

"When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being s…"

"There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so."

"No celebrity bullshit, no self promotion - an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being."

"The use of science in the practice of virtue, is considerable: the man who knows the beauty of virtue will follow it, however possible. Knowing the evil of wrong, he will avoid it, however possible. H…"

"In the second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals."

"Philosophers have always tried to show that we are not like other animals, sniffing their way uncertainly through the world. Yet after all the work of Plato and Spinoza, Descartes and Bertrand Russell…"

"One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible."

"When the divine decree descends, the human being is cornered."

"Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind."

"Jake was being Subtle, which was only laughable; when he was straightforward he was incomprehensible."