philosophy

"I hate being the subject of photographs."

"All types of conniving methods are still being used to keep Negroes from becoming registered voters. Complex literacy tests are often given, with questions that a Ph. D. in any field or a person with …"

"The existence of a de facto global racial hierarchy helps to shape the nature of racial prejudice exhibited by other races. Whites are universally respected, even when that respect is combined with st…"

"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was — only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. I lik…"

"We are a multitude of selves, and the sooner we learn that, the better. And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical operative stability. Only because we ch…"

"The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter."

"When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me."

"Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned."

"Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science."

"Whether it be generally recognized or not, what we call the civilized world, which for seven hundred years has been moving steadily forward in the spirit of liberalism and toward liberalism s high ide…"

"The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reas…"

"My own philosophical position, if I may put it that way, is very briefly as follows:"

"'And make up your mind about what bloody race you belong to. One minute it’s all about being a farmer’s boy in Northamptonshire and the next you’re on about the old days in Calcutta and what the Briti…"

"Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies."

"In this part of the lecture I have argued that a number of works in development economics written during the 1950s contained, more or less explicitly and more or less self-consciously, a theory in whi…"

"I felt the question was stupid so I didn't answer."

"Schopenhauer at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning."

"I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops."

"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."