philosophy

"Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance."

"he philosophy of Plotinus has the defect of encouraging men to look within rather than to look without: when we look within we see nous, which is divine, while when we look without we see the imperfec…"

"Charles Boarman. a Lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says:"

"The difficulty between us and Germany is this: that Germany believes that the logic of her victory means domination, while we do not believe that the logic of our defeat is serfdom ."

"It is impossible that the eye should project from itself, by visual rays, the visual virtue, since, as soon as it opens, that front portion which would give rise to this emanation would have to go for…"

"What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?"

"I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason."

"74. Hearken to Reason, or shee will bee heard."

"The great question is: from which country shall we copy the Constitution?"

"And so, supposing that light impinging on a refracting or reflecting ethereal superficies puts it into a vibrating motion, that physical superficies being by the perpetual applause of rays always kept…"

"If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan."

"Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind: the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities."

"We're creatures of habit. We lined up for the old Batman and Star Wars films long after they stopped being great, and we'll pay Apple the same courtesy if it loses its mojo."

"What is striking about the books which were written, especially during the eighteenth century, to defend Christianity against these attacks, is the degree to which they accept the assumptions of their…"

"Other things being equal, the law seems to be directly reversed."

"He assumed now the role of a practical magician, and astonished the city by the evocation of phantoms, which he caused to appear, at the wish of the inquirer, either in a mirror or in a vase of clear …"

"I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense. You're…"

"Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the s…"

"And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this …"

"Thomas Kuhn entry by Alexander Bird in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"