You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it..

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and th….

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted..

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your ….

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivatio….

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the sense….

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone wh….

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding..

It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nic….

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people..

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize..

You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise….

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into t….

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing..

The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an ….

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is ….

Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can ne….

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are..

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself..

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that..