Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars. - Walter Kaufmann
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.
- Walter Kaufmann
To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious… - Walter Kaufmann
To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious…
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a mar… - Walter Kaufmann
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a mar…
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe. - Walter Kaufmann
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibil… - Walter Kaufmann
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibil…
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their … - Walter Kaufmann
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their …
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? - Walter Kaufmann
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly. - Walter Kaufmann
Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either s… - Walter Kaufmann
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either s…
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