To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe..
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God..
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being..
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….
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are dra….
Man is condemned to be free.
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said t….
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say….
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist..
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers..
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countrie….
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so 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….
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them..
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil..
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissensio….
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological natur….
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the m….
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love..
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself….
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be..