philosophy

"We spend most of our time carrying trivial cargoes for trivial reasons to trivial people."

"The only question on which we did not agree has been settled, and the Lord has decided against me."

"The issue is not between bad guys who use and "adversary" approach and good guys who are scientific and impartial...Everybody, including himself is partial in the sense of starting somewhere, of selec…"

"Despite the aural onslaught, King is not an assault I think it's us being us, more than anything. I think we finally had the resources to be us on this record."

"I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept mon…"

"Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obsta…"

"My work is writing, but my real work is being."

"The story of the brain's separation from the body begin with Rene Descartes. The most influential philosopher of the seventeenth century, Descartes divided being into two distinct substances: a holy s…"

"This is his conclusion : "What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, Philosophy. But this consists in keeping the divinity within a man free from violence and unharmed, …"

"'For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.'"

"Is it not clear that with all this we are bound to feel ill at ease in an age that likes to claim the distinction of being the most humane, the mildest, and the most righteous age that the sun has eve…"

"I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed."

"A scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantage…"

"What often happens if you study this integral map is that it begins to make room in your psyche, in your being, in your soul, for all the parts of you that were disowned, whether by society, your pare…"

"“Nonviolence is opening to the existence, freedom and development of every being"

"They snuggled closer, and when they were as close as they could get without being behind one another, they commenced to kiss again."

"The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional."

"For Muslims the Quran is the Word of God; it is sacred scripture, not a work of "literature," a manual of law, or a text of theology, philosophy or history although it is of incomparable literary qual…"

"He stared into darkness, seeing the last of the horizon. Then he touched the weathered quarterdeck rail. Aloud he said ‘We'll fight very soon, my girl. You and me. Never ask the bloody reason, only fi…"

"The Thou encounters me by grace — it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed."