philosophy

"Nebulæ can be selected so that an insensible gradation shall take place from a coarse cluster like the Pleiades down to a milky nebulosity like that in Orion, every intermediate step being represented…"

"Being, not doing, is my first joy."

"The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be …"

"The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called "the mighty frame of the world," rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise."

"LermaNet.com - 'Stalked by Allstate: Being an agent for the giant insurer can be tough-- even terrifying. An extraordinary war between a company and its own troops is only getting fiercer.' Richard Be…"

"The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristi…"

"A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self . And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and securit…"

"One could rightly say that I became a Catholic by default, and that possibility is the simple gift I received from the Catholic Church. Mater ecclesia, she needed neither reasons, nor theories, nor id…"

"Philosophy was as naive as science in its unconscious acceptance of the assumptions or dynamic of typography."

"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. ."