The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; t….

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too..

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but in literature I see it all the ti….

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions ….

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to repl….

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them..

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top..

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe..

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-go….

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sw….

Man is condemned to be free.

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, m….

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation th….

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love..

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring wha….

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist..

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others..

The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and ….

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has ….

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray..