philosophy

"The fundamental maxim of those who stand at the head of this Age, and therefore the principle of the Age, is this,—to accept nothing as really existing or obligatory, but that which they can understan…"

"Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied."

"Racism" is to the current era what "unAmericanism" was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought."

"I make what it pleases me to make.. ..I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. I …"

"And because this Experimental Science is wholly ignored by the general run of students, for that reason I can not convince people of its utility unless I show at the same time its excellence and its p…"

"The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."

"As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increa…"

"In their brief primitive phase, the Fifth Men, like so many other races, sought to console themselves by unreasoning faith in a life after death, They conceived, for instance, that at death terrestria…"

"No one, who knows what the difficulties are, now believes that the crisis of physics is likely to be resolved by any simple trick or modification of existing theories. Something radical is needed, and…"

"Documents and books relating to him abound, but they possess little or no value. The most interesting are frequently the most unreliable. The fact that material so questionable should provide as many …"

"Having given up autonomy, reason has become an instrument."

"The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced."

"Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done."

"I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God’s objectives means I understand that this is not about me."

"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy."

"The practice of untouchability brutalises human self beyond repair. The nation’s energies are being destroyed by this practice, which has spiritual, moral, ethical and ideological sanction of the Hind…"

"Without being too clinical, let’s say his brain was affected."

"He did not keep me, what could I do? I had to go. But I left my psychic being with him, and in France I was once on the point of death: the doctors had given me Up."

"I don't post on forums or comments for the same reason I don't attempt to french kiss pneumatic drills."

"I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part…"