philosophy

"Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action."

"Chronological list by date of publication of George Eliot's novels, short stories and poems"

"emphasize the human side of science: real activities by real human beings, both today and in specific periods of history. Personal characteristics of scientists, with which students can identify, shou…"

"It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless."

"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics."

"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with somethi…"

"People have their reasons for giving rides, all of them different. Maybe they hitched a lot when they were younger and now they're settled and comfortable they want to put back what they took out. Lik…"

"The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time."

"When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?"

"We are seeking our own authenticity, and we will find it because we wish, in the innermost fibers of our being to discover it."

"Social-chauvinism is advocacy of the idea of "defense of the fatherland: in the present war. This idea logically leads to the abandonment of the class struggle during the war, to voting for war credit…"

"We've got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it’s a little tough to figure out who’s really being harassed."

"Hegel made famous his aphorism that all the rational is real and all the real rational; but there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrat…"

"It is only within the framework of an independent ideological state built on the principles of Islam and endowed with all the machinery of government, legislation, and law-enforcement that the ideals …"

"The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology."

"The point is that humans are rarely at their best when they use rational reasoning."

"Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

"There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete."

"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appeara…"

"Paul Tillich television interview Paul Tillich in four separate interviews entitled philosophy and religion, religion in the philosophy of life, religion and psychotherapy, and philosophy and art. It …"