philosophy

"There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it."

"So why was a civilian going armed? It bespoke a degree of lawlessness that fitted ill with a technological society."

"Having to remind others of your American status, fear of being connected to the enemy because of ancestral ties, the threat so prevalent that it makes you put not one but two giant flags outside is no…"

"he successes of modern control theory in the design of highly accurate space navigation systems have stimulated its use in the theoretical analyses of economic and biological systems. Similarly, the e…"

"I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question."

"No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the…"

"ecause that which is finite is always bounded with reference to something... it is necessary that there should be no end... umber also appears to be infinite, and mathematical magnitudes, and that whi…"

"In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas."

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system. The world is mired in,, and the most extreme inequality in, accompanied by mass unempl…"

"He is the embodiment of greed, ambition, bigotry, and dislike of the marginalized. Of course, all that means is that he simply instantiates in a clear way the values of the GOP, but they don’t like th…"

"His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' d…"

"Finally rises philosophy, which, after a few monstrous efforts from Calvin to Leibnitz to reconcile contradictions and form a theodice, comes out boldly in Spinozism to declare the impossibility of th…"

"The dream body is the one with which you are most familiar. It has been called the astral body. It strikes you as being physical when you are in it, but you can do things with it that can't be done or…"

"It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable."

"It seems that extremists on both sides are determined to maintain the state of hostility and hatred between the two states, but logic says that there should be a change of direction in order to turn a…"

"The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century."

"For Linnaeus, Homo sapiens was both special and not special. Special and not special have come to mean nonbiological and biological, or nurture and nature. These later polarizations are nonsensical. H…"

"Here we come upon one of the most profound reasons for Socratic irony: direct language is not adequate for communicating the experience of existing, the authentic consciousness of being, the seriousne…"

"Within a few short years, without a shot's being fired, the concept of holistic health has been legitimized by federal and state programs, endorsed by politicians, urged and underwritten by insurance …"

"The tendency to regard continuity, in the sense in which I shall define it, as an idea of prime importance in philosophy conveniently may be be termed synechism. The present paper is intended chiefly …"