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Quotes by Philosopher
"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."
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"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them."
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"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them."
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"Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody."
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"If size really mattered, a match wouldn't be able to set a forest on fire."
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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
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"Two minds are smarter than one. Two hands are stronger than one. Two hearts are mightier than one. Two souls are greater than one."
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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
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"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
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"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."
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"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune."
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"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."
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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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"Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus."
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"When you lead the wise, walk behind them. When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them. When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them."
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"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."
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"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."
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"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."
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"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."
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"When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going." Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
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"The world of an animal is reduced to its perimeter. Human world is reduced to its perimeter, but does the world of God have perimeters? If it does then it is not infinite, but if it doesn't, it means that this is not a world."
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"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."
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"Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city."
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"Retire within yourselves, but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company."
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"Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object."
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"Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified."
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"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."
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"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
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"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
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"The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first."
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"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."
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"If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself."
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"Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition."
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"To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously."
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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."
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"After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?"
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"Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion."
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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
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