philosophy

"What in the whole denotes a causal equilibrium process, appears for the part as a teleological event."

"So, who is offended? Who is humiliated by the fatwas being reproduced and analysed? It is the secularist. And the reason is manifest. He has no answer in the face of this evidence, in the face of the …"

"If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight."

"Like some spark lighting upon our inmost soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us—a love at once to the Holy Word, the most lovely object of all, who attracts all irresistibly toward Hims…"

"I suppose one could scarcely have had innocence and experience. Being young is very exhausting and unsatisfactory, really—although it looks so nice."

"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing."

"It is usually assumed that, in speaking, in the 1844 Manuscripts, of man’s “being reduced to the level of the animals,” and of man’s alienation from his “species-being” under the conditions of capital…"

"Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series—now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns."

"These esoteric poses of philosophy and even the paper theories of behaviorists are mere subterfuges to avoid the material we are talking about."

"The impression that infra-human mammals more or less confine themselves to heterosexual activities is a distortion of the fact which appears to have originated in a man-made philosophy, rather than in…"

"It's unnecessary to introduce magic into the explanation of physical and biological phenomena when in fact there is every likelihood that the continuation of research as it is now practiced will indee…"

"The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war."

"The natural right of property far from being protected, is systematically violated, and both government and law seem to exist chiefly or solely, in order to protect and organize the most efficacious m…"

"Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other."

"When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal mat…"

"Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. It is not so much an attempt to describe particular objects of his experience as to set…"

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."

"Plato in his philosophical writings, stressed the inner psychological reality in contrast to the reality of the external world. He believed that the human soul consists of three parts. 1) The rational…"

"People at the top do not want to share their power. They’ve always got some marvellous reason: I’m following my religion; I’m following the laws of economics. Even Stalin: I’m representing the vanguar…"

"If we assume that the person asking the question is serious, there is an underlying background of purposes and understanding into which the question fits. If a questioner were to ask "Can pigs have wi…"