The good is the beautiful..
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes th….
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa..
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria..
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them..
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic….
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental..
When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in..
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of c….
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute..
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and ….
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of..
Everything flows and nothing stays..
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion..
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?.
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own..
Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared..
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit.….
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief..
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally cle….
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is ….