philosophy

"Substitute Tully and Demosthenes in the place of Homer and Virgil; and arm yourself with all the variety of manner, copiousness and beauty of diction, nobleness and magnificence of ideas of the Roman …"

"My poor opinion is, that the closest connexion between Great Britain and Ireland, is essential to the well being, I had almost said, to the very being, of the two Kingdoms. ... I think indeed that Gre…"

"When I became gainfully employed, I didn’t stop being a revolutionary. I simply had to make sure my interests were aligned with my employer."

"This fact... proves that space measurements are reducible to time measurements. Time is therefore logically prior to space."

"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."

"Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mank…"

"Neither Watt's steam engine nor Whitney's standardized parts really started the Industrial Revolution, although each has been awarded that claim, in the past. The real start was the awakening of scien…"

"I believe that they have put a spotlight on what women have always known and have always been more or less silent about. Patriarchal domination, even — despite appearances — in the West, is still very…"

"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Original Position by Fred D'Agostino"

"The constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all t…"

"Karma is an unfamiliar word for Western ears. It is the name adopted by Theosophists of the nineteenth century for one of the most important of the laws of nature. Ceaseless in its operation, it bears…"

"The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship"

"the last battle between Teutons and Slavs find the Anglo-Saxons on the side of the Slavs and the Gauls... wanted to forbid other Powers to defend their interests...with the sword. … England will undou…"

"Localized, small‐scale economies are the rats in the dinosaurs’ nests. The informal and household economy operates more efficiently than the capitalist economy, and can function on the waste byproduct…"

"Whenever men meet together in large groups they adopt a different view of themselves and look at each other in a new way. They are emboldened, strengthened in their desire and gravitate to those who s…"

"People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball."

"Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry."

"In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems--fo…"

"Thought is led, by the situation of its objects, to measure their truth in terms of another logic, another universe of discourse. And this logic projects another mode of existence: the realization of …"

"On October 11, 1963, my suggestion was to pass on a request of our customers to relax the ALGOL 60 rule of compulsory declaration of variable names and adopt some reasonable default convention such as…"