philosophy

"Donald tried his very best not to be destroyed in the way my dad was... so he ended up with a very narrow range in which he could safely operate as a human being; so it's created this quite dangerous …"

"I have no doubt myself that the reason why Colonel Nasser acted in the way that he did, aggressively, brusquely, suddenly, was precisely because he wanted to raise his prestige in the rest of the Midd…"

"A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions"

"I admit I know little of Orient art. But that is because I cannot find in it what I am looking for, or what I am talking about. To me the Oriental idea of beauty is that 'it isn’t there'. It is in a s…"

"If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relati…"

"ideological jihad explained"

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"He’s managed to build a radical movement, entirely around opposition to Evo—anti-Evismo, Everything that’s being done right now, the whole political agenda is pushing right now is the agenda of Camach…"

"In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject."

"My immediate consciousness, my absolute perception, cannot go beyond myself, — I have immediate knowledge only of myself, whatever I know further I know only by reasoning, in the same manner in which …"

"I think that – you know – we just encountered – America encountered – a brilliant man, and in terms of being a noble cause, it wasn't that many centuries ago that killing in the name of God, or waging…"

"To solve the question, 'What should art be?' will be to solve the contradiction between rational being and the blind force of nature, to fathom the most abnormal relationship between man and nature, t…"

"I think submission to authority and absolving oneself from blame by saying that one has to obey orders are widespread...I think all medical students should be taught about the research on submissivene…"

"Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it."

"Paul Gauguin, that curious artist, that alien whose mien and the look in whose eyes vaguely remind one of Rembrandt's 'Portrait of a Man' in the Galerie Lacaze — this friend of mine likes to make one …"

"Comets are flying around the solar system. As they near the sun, they develop a tail as material is blown off by the solar wind. Most astronomers agree that comets cannot be more than 10,000 years old…"

"William of Ockham" at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"…see theatre that moves you, theatre that challenges you, and theatre that bores you to the point that, as a beautiful human being once told me, instead of focusing on the performance, you begin attem…"

"I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation."

"I forgot, being too interested myself, that he’s a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king."