philosophy

"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much better by being different."

"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."

"The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights…"

"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."

"Martin Buber – The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article by Sarah Scott"

"The Koran tells Muslims to hate Jews because they're Jews, not because of Palestine. It doesn't mention the Palestinians. And if Israel disappeared tomorrow, Jews in Sweden and all over Europe would s…"

"Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold."

"I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts."

"If you won’t debate, the argument goes, you’re an enemy of free speech. You’re basically no better than a Nazi, and certainly far worse than any of the actual Nazis muttering about not being allowed t…"

"If you take away Eau Rouge, you take away the reason why I do this."

"Mathematical research currently relies on a complex system of mutual trust based on reputations. By the time Simpson's paper appeared, both Kapranov and I had strong reputations. Simpson's paper creat…"

"Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few appreciative eyes. I know a painting so evanescent that it…"