philosophy

"Of course, Harry and I are both quite upset about it - that our mother's trust has been betrayed and even now she is still being exploited."

"In this unexpected scenario, the UFO occupants -- despite their obvious technological superiority -- are desperate for both human genetic material and the ability to feel human emotions -- particularl…"

"The right of parliament to legislate for us cannot be accounted for upon any reasonable grounds. The constitution of Great Britain is very properly called a limited monarchy, the people having reserve…"

"Sincere thanks to all the publishers who rejected my manuscripts. Rejection is the reason behind the creation of this book."

"Caring about your self as it will be in the future is no more reasonable than caring about the self you are now."

"All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find n…"

"To some extent, of course, we are all impostors. We play roles on the stage of life, presenting a public self that differs from the private self we share with intimates and morphing both selves as cir…"

"A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud."

"It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed."

"This exchange – mainly in the form of letters – was not only about painting and art, but covered everything to do with one's existence and the philosophical or religious colouring, in a word: for the …"

"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cea…"

"Engineers speak of a “control loop,” in which the “man in the loop” is the problematical element. This is the human component in a series of sequentially interacting pieces of equipment that control o…"

"To move towards harmony is the persistent impulse of the rational being, even if the goal lies always beyond the reach of accomplished effort."

"When it broke down, I would break down. I had to wean myself from it just to survive. I had to have interventions. People would say, ‘You’ve got to do something else.’ So that was part of it—being too…"

"Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being."

"No geological difficulties, real or imagined, can be allowed to take precedence over the clear statements and necessary inferences of Scripture."

"As I grew older the poetic surround becomes more important. I realize that the 'poetic attention' was more important to me than poetry was. The 'poetic attention' being a kind of longing without the d…"

"My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather th…"

"The central question of economic policy is the question of the effectiveness of its various instruments."

"Blade grumbled about the absurdities of the theological imagination and why didn’t people have sense enough to smother would-be priests in their cradles?"