philosophy

"Personally about Mr. Trump, it tells me that his desire to protect himself, his ego, his appearance, his sense of being right, is bottomless, because if there's anything that you should hold back from…"

"In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin – consideration of their feelings. And it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only…"

"The demand from is that we should respect not just the person qua person but also his or her beliefs. It’s a demand that undermines individual autonomy, both by constraining the right of people to cri…"

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."

"Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning."

"We are in a global emergency, which affects all of us. But everyone is not suffering its Consequences equally... Africa is being disproportionately hit by the climate crisis, despite contributing to i…"

"If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial ar…"

"I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me."

"Brian Eno: The Philosophy of Surrender" Interview"

"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"

"Such complicated and apparently unnecessary behavior leads philosophers, both amateur and professional, to ask over and over again, "Why can't human beings live simply and naturally?" Often the comple…"

"If this property of complexity could somehow be transformed into visible brightness so that it would stand forth more clearly to our senses, the biological world would become a walking field of light …"

"This opinion... appears to be ancient... that the one, excess and defect, are the principles of things... It is not... probable that there are more than three principles... ssence is one certain genus…"

"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?"

"Never be so arrogant that you fail to give people the benefit of being as stupid as they actually are."

"Von Neumann vs. Dirac — at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"These days, to be "patriotic" means to wave the flag and shout slogans whenever the mass media deem it appropriate. It means to cheer the government whenever the government decides to use its cruise m…"

"On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court’s decision. You are not obliged to obey the decisions of any court which are plainly fraudulent sociol…"

"When does the soul obtain truth?—for in attempting to consider anything in company with the body she is obviously deceived. ...Then must not existence be revealed to her in thought, if at all? ...And …"

"We’re human beings and the sun is the sun — how can it be bad for you? I think we should all get sun and fresh air. I don’t think anything that is natural can be bad for you — it’s really good to have…"