philosophy

"There is a natural right that says that when the state asks you for a third of what you earned through back-breaking work, this seems to you a reasonable demand and you give in. If the state asks you …"

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anythin…"

"e have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive …"

"I've always had a thing about being accused of something when I'm not guilty of it, you know? That goes right back to a primary school thing. It's the thing that scares me the most— being blamed for s…"

"But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of i…"

"There always have been—and always will be—aggrieved persons. The lower their estate the more difficult it is to find a right to fit the wrong being done. Part of our problem starts at that point. In N…"

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."

"Though, by the logic of this tribe, the best promoters of India’s unity were the British. They did far more and succeeded to a much greater extent in imposing a unity on India. By that logic, General …"

"Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up…"

"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."

"Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system.. .Today's laziness and the…"

"Although proclaiming Spinoza the chief and most prominent ‘representative’ of the underground atheistic tradition supposedly striving to undermine the main structures of authority underpinning Christe…"

"For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in."

"The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely."

"People of goodwill who support the Palestinians resent being falsely accused of being anti-Semites."

"Spinoza’s formula, “Deus=natura=substantia”, like all conclusions drawn from it in his Ethics and his earlier works, simply means that there is no God. This discovery pf Spinoza’s became the starting …"

"Man is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united … How will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innu…"

"Simonson, in rubber jacket and similar galoshes, bound with whip-cord over woolen socks , was also awaiting the departure of the party. He stood near the entrance of the house, writing down in a note-…"

"The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, 'Western civilisation' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary succes…"

"Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual. There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to t…"