Things can change in a day..
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish..
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or phi….
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems..
The things which must be must be for the best..
I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying some….
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.
I have inhaled, exhaled everything..
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck me forcefully, so tha….
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts,….
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather tha….
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be cl….
The discipline of desire is the background of character..
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to som….
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old b….
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends its….
The map is not the territory..
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the sol….
But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water..
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it..
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza..