philosophy

"It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings."

"Fascism's most direct ideological inspiration came from the collateral influence of Italy's most radical 'subversives' — the Marxists of revolutionary syndicalism."

"The elevator doors slid shut behind him; there was a hum as it began to go up automatically. It wouldn't come down again unless somebody else keyed it, Starkey knew; as soon as the installation's inte…"

"We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out."

"Love is our natural condition, and it is the denial of love what requires all our rational efforts, but what for, when life is so much better in love than in aggression? Love needs not to be learned, …"

"ur purpose is to give a presentation of geometry... in its visual, intuitive aspects. With the aid of visual imagination we can illuminate the manifold facts and problems... beyond this, it is possibl…"

"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. In so far as such a theory is empirically…"

"The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men..."

"She’d ended with I’ll do whatever I can, but you might have to make do with being avenged."

"I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks."

"A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's pe…"

"Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. It is a strange science whose most telling assertions are its most tremulously bas…"

"What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed."

"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone A…"

"A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformation of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily a…"

"Painting is an act, a sequence of movements one bears within oneself, whose source is one's inner being."

"These rumors do not circulate in all directions, but essentially from the top to the bottom of society. The rather sophisticated presentations, the apparently serious references that seem to justify t…"

"Production systems which are technologically the most advanced are also the least adaptable and work to the longest time scale of decision making. These are the process industries in which vast resour…"

"Why is a Kennaston?" he asked himself — thus whimisically voicing a real desire to know if human beings were intended for any especial purpose. Most of us find it more comfortable, upon the whole, to …"

"Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology , and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves …"