As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political ….
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt..
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts..
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-min….
True virtue is life under the direction of reason..
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak..
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature ….
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die..
In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were..
J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed by his insi….
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love..
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have ….
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love..
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm wi….
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical..
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop..
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character..
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything..
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usuall….
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the ….