There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are ….

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it..

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence..

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you..

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...….

As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosop….

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry..

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many….

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the sha….

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent..

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes ….

Existence precedes and rules essence..

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law..

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love..

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The p….

No obligation to do the impossible is binding..

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example..

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surel….

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are..

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that precede….

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar question….