philosophy

"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom r…"

"The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear."

"Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really."

"The members of the Vienna Circle are working out a ‘Logical Empiricism’. Following Ernst Mach and Poincaré, but above all Russell and Wittgenstein, all the sciences are treated uniformly. Carnap’s Log…"

"Why is space-time doomed? There are many reasons, among which: In string theory we can change the dimension of space-time by changing the strength of the string force. Thus, the so-called II-A string …"

"I am well aware that in theological and democratic terms I am, no more than "God's silly vassal"

"One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist."

"You have given carte blanche – do you realize what you have done? If the late Prince Bismarck could appear here before you, his first words would be: "How could you do such a thing, how could you tran…"

"I think being ‘alternative,’ which most people think holds me back, actually helps . If I'd been an ordinary singer, I'd still be trying to get noticed in Canada. I'm an alternative in every way. I'm …"

"He who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted." The person who exalts himself ... will be humbled, because a person who considers himself to be good, intelligent,…"

"There isn't one role I'd like to play. There are many and there are none. I've always admitted to being a prostitute. I sell myself for money. I don't have to see myelf up on the screen as Napoleon to…"

"We ought to be able to see more clearly just for what reason the mass-man is so easily turned into a fanatic. What I seem to myself to have grasped is this, that such permeability is due to the fact t…"

"Influence on Friesian Philosophy"

"There's the hospital sequence in The Day After and there's the hospital sequence in Threads. In The Day After people are being wheeled in on gurneys and everybody's stressed, but they're coping with i…"

"Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes … If one must condemn everyone that misses in…"

"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell."

"Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature."

"For being a man worth any thousand men, the response your Knox, your Cromwell gets, is an argument for two centuries whether he was a man at all. God's greatest gift to this Earth is sneeringly flung …"

"Habituation to bargaining and to the competitive principles of business necessarily brings it about that pecuniary standards of efficiency invade the sense of workmanship; so that work, workmen, equip…"

"If philosophy does not resolve any scientific problem, science, in its turn, does not resolve any philosophical problem."