philosophy

"Peace had broken out and was being enthusiastically exploited on the presumption that it could not possibly last."

"Well, I have no doubt that he has been visited by at least one of these men... they walk into his office and shake his hands and say, “Congratulations, Mr. President. You won. We launched a strong cam…"

"Well what about three men? If reason says that if you think it's OK for two, then you have to differentiate with me as to why it's not OK for three."

"That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option."

"We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us — Martins felt the little jab of dispensability."

"I wish in closing to emphasize how little corporate philanthrophy is actually philanthropic, in the sense of being driven by altruism rather than by profit maximization."

"...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity."

"Several groups have several reasons for manufacturing calumny - from money to idelogy to the crassest kind of politics. Many of these are well-organized, some, as we shall see, have well-knit, world-w…"

"Men have superior strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definitions of independence; a…"

"India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell."

"Dirac's argument for electric charge quantization is not to be taken lightly because it is the first "topological conservation law" uncovered in Abelian gauge theory. Since Dirac's two papers on the m…"

"We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit."

"I had to find a way in each picture to change the drawing, shaping and tactile qualities to make these elements expressive; as the color had subsumed the possibility the possibility of these parts bei…"

"I really don’t think I was influenced by anyone. I think I will leave it up to someone else to determine who influenced me. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrive…"

"You thought you could treat me the way you did everybody else and beat me up for being smarter than you. Because you’ve always been the big king of the class, haven’t you, Your Majesty? Well, you’re n…"

"Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying? — that void is consciousness itself."

"Let us take first an absurd example: always preferring goods that come on Thursdays to those that come on Wednesdays, solely because of a preference for that particular day of the week. As we shall se…"

"Dr Kurien was an outstanding and innovative manager and an exceptional human being. His contribution to the welfare of the farmer and agricultural production and development of the country is immeasur…"

"It filled me with dread – she had a reputation for being difficult. She had been headlining on the Royal Command performance the night before we were due to start. She arrived and swept through recept…"

"Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"