philosophy

"The Democrats complain about the Republican base being nuts … The nuts are their entire party … They're always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. … Frankly,…"

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consi…"

"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."

"Haven't you ever been around someone who makes you feel guilty when you’re in their presence, even though you know there is no reason to feel this way?... it's because you have entered the drama world…"

"Every pain is to be avoided, except those whose endurance will enable the avoidance of greater pain, and every possible happiness is to be harvested, save those whose foregoing will help the universe …"

"We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations."

"Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on Voltaire"

"Between emotion and logic resides the fate of thousands of the mostly unknown... who will surely then and now be asked to settle through violence what words alone cannot. Remember them, for the Pelopo…"

"To see! to see! — this is the craving of the sailor, as of the rest of blind humanity. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous exist…"

"As I say, I know nothing of wheeler-dealers and their wheels. I do, however, know a little about human beings, and a lot about the English language, and I needed no more than that to button my back-po…"

"The campaign I’m donating my rotten face for is ‘Dead things should be buried, not eaten.’ Being a vegetarian, it kind of shows how gory it is to see ripped off arms and ripped off hands of people of …"

"Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same."

"Now verse is more valuable than prose … for the simple reasons that its rhythms are faster and more highly organized than are those of prose, and so lend themselves to a greater complexity and compres…"

"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."

"We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings."

"Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath."

"There is no point in prioritizing doing your job when your organization faces being defunded in less than three months’ time if you don’t do something else: you do what’s necessary in order to ensure …"

"A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."

"There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad."

"The thing about opium is that it makes you vomit. You cook the original raw sticky pellet against the bowl of the pipe. And for the first three or four months, you puke. But it’s a clean very easy puk…"