philosophy

"We need heuristic reasoning when we construct a strict proof as we need scaffolding when we erect a building."

"But how can we avoid the use of human language? The... symbol. Only by using a symbolic language not yet usurped by those vague ideas of space, time, continuity which have their origin in intuition an…"

"We define an agency relationship as a contract under which one or more persons ) engage another person to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority …"

"Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it."

"Without that forward-going, courageous consciousness, a woman herself will drift into unconsciousness and terror. It's the sleep of the naive and damned. She needs to wake herself up and bring her own…"

"It’s on all of us to stand up, to speak out when you see someone being abused. This is an organization that’s defined American — excuse me, defeated American enemies on land, sea, and air, and been de…"

"Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India."

"I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much."

"I read to you parts of the indictment claiming that I was part of a joint criminal enterprise to expel Croatians from Croatia, Muslims from Bosnia, Albanians from Kosovo, in order to create some sort …"

"None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don’t know we can’t do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we’re told not to judge."

"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."

"What then was the commencement of the whole matter ? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably…"

"To be effective, morality has to be reasoned . To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is…"

"The VPA is so clearly immoral that the question of its being an outrage to every decent human being should not even be a legitimate topic for discussion among civilized individuals. There is no justif…"

"I went over to the Sargent, said, "Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here o…"

"No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearfu…"

"On the scale on which is being tried, I'm a little apprehensive. I'm all for reduction of government expenditures but to anticipate it by reducing the rate of taxation before you have reduced expendit…"

"The things you hear now about European unemployment -- that there are structural problems, that real wages have failed to adjust, that there are inflationary fears -- are the same things that were sai…"

"We had doubts about the, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which s…"

"Quite often the young person is horrified at innocent animals being driven to the slaughterhouse to satisfy the appetites of the human species which could easily feed itself in other ways."