philosophy

"It paints a portrait of a man attempting to cope with being a human."

"I learnt to see philosophical systems in the context of the social milieu which produced them. I therefore learnt to look for social contention in philosophical systems. It is of course possible to se…"

"What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek t…"

"The proletariat, like every organism, must from itself and its conditions develop its own antagonisms and its own means of overcoming them. Stalinism is the decay of world capitalism, a state-capitali…"

"I remember, that being once at Leyden, I was brought to the top of a tower, where, in a darkened room a convex glass, applied to the only hole, by which light was permitted to enter, did project upon …"

"Good and evil ! good and evil ! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being ; and who may unthread the darker yarn ?"

"The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population."

"Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who has ever been able to sustain a good w…"

"Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them."

"Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth."

"The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. ."

"We spend most of our time carrying trivial cargoes for trivial reasons to trivial people."

"The only question on which we did not agree has been settled, and the Lord has decided against me."

"The issue is not between bad guys who use and "adversary" approach and good guys who are scientific and impartial...Everybody, including himself is partial in the sense of starting somewhere, of selec…"

"Despite the aural onslaught, King is not an assault I think it's us being us, more than anything. I think we finally had the resources to be us on this record."

"I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept mon…"

"Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obsta…"

"My work is writing, but my real work is being."

"The story of the brain's separation from the body begin with Rene Descartes. The most influential philosopher of the seventeenth century, Descartes divided being into two distinct substances: a holy s…"

"This is his conclusion : "What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, Philosophy. But this consists in keeping the divinity within a man free from violence and unharmed, …"