philosophy

"The rule is derived inductively from experience, therefore does not have any inner necessity, is always valid only for special cases and can anytime be refuted by opposite facts. On the contrary, the …"

"The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect."

"I tried to tell you, but words will not convey it. One has to be inside it to comprehend the magnitude. … It was the beginning. It's the only thing there is. But it was haphazard for so many aeons tha…"

"Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most s…"

"Class field theory can be divided into two parts, local and global. In each part it is the study of all the abelian extensions of a certain base field. The underlying philosophy is to describe all abe…"

"If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and b…"

"What we need is courage and determination in facing up to seemingly insurmountable odds. What we have to do is not so difficult on the face of it, if we just look at the direct ecological measures tha…"

"Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones."

"This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said."

"We have heard from the opposite Bench several very animated appeals to this House, and several constitutional lectures as to our duties. The noble Earl the late Foreign Secretary went so far, as I und…"

"Ingels: Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic."

"This view , which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences,…"

"The word vegan should not just be used when referring to people who choose not to eat animal products because being vegan includes doing our best to abstain from participating in the other ways animal…"

"Being wrong is a blow to the proud human ego."

"Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative."

"“We’re flexible,” Campion said. “It’s the price we pay for being sentient."

"In art aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable."

"The Prosecutor is satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to initiate an investigation into the situation in Palestine under article 53 of the Rome Statute, and that the scope of the Court’s territ…"

"Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psycholo…"

"The physical structures of organisms play only a minor and secondary role... The only requirement which physical structure must fulfill is that it allow the characteristic behaviors themselves to be m…"