True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and em….
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted..
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any speci….
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul..
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. ….
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue..
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself..
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others..
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society..
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause..
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was….
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide..
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, espe….
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus think….
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infin….
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. H….
Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on..
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways i….
A confession has to be part of your new life..
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts..
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a p….