philosophy

"No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough."

"I'm fine with being kicked off of my committees because it'd be a waste of my time. So now I have a lot of free time on my hands."

"A wiki is always in the process of being organized. But for every hour spent organizing, two more hours are spent adding new material. So the status quo for a wiki is always partially organized."

"It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think."

"Ever since Turkey joined the National Government of Accord in Libya, the state of civil war on the ground is rapidly being replaced by an atmosphere of peace and stability. The constant atmosphere of …"

"You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of …"

"The Antients, as we learn from Pappus, in vain endeavour'd at the Trisection of an Angle, and the finding out of two mean Proportionals by a right line and a Circle. Afterwards they began to consider …"

"How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in tes…"

"Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids."

"Well, I don't even want his million dollars. I don't want his million dollars. I mean, the reason I came on is because he kept you know, my web site, yeah, yeah, and said I would never come on and fac…"

"In the ranks of Labour there would be no faltering until victory was won and German and Japanese aggression had been utterly defeated. But they had reached a stage when they could look beyond war to p…"

"Article at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet."

"The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology."

"The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike."

"The broad standardisation of culture represented in nationalism would not have been possible without a modern mass medium such as the printed book . Thus it may be said that writing has not only influ…"

"Let us start by considering why the attempt to glorify science on its own cannot work. This is because human thought operates as a whole. It is an ecosphere, a vast and complex landscape, including, b…"

"I do not plan to come back. I have no reason to come back.. I plan to do my best to help the Chinese people build up the nation to where they can live with dignity and happiness."

"The sleep of reason produces monsters."

"Whitehall, on being "posh", or coming from an affluent background"