In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, a….
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher..
The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of phil….
I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done..
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem..
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such acti….
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want t….
Newspapers are the second hand of history..
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience..
I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's….
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life Afte….
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debat….
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself..
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile..
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others..
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally f….
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, o….
Philosophy begins in wonder..
As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their devel….
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and for….
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it..