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There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.Collection: Philosophy
Life's like a mayonnaise soda.Collection: Philosophy
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.Collection: Philosophy
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.Collection: Philosophy
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.Collection: Philosophy
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.Collection: Philosophy
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.Collection: Philosophy
Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.Collection: Philosophy
Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.Collection: Philosophy
Look poor, think rich.Collection: Philosophy
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.Collection: Philosophy
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.Collection: Philosophy
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.Collection: Philosophy
The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.Collection: Philosophy
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive.Collection: Philosophy
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.Collection: Philosophy
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalismCollection: Philosophy
When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.Collection: Philosophy
Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.Collection: Philosophy
Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.Collection: Philosophy
Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.Collection: Philosophy
The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.Collection: Philosophy
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.Collection: Philosophy
You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.Collection: Philosophy
A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.Collection: Philosophy
Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.Collection: Philosophy
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.Collection: Philosophy
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.Collection: Philosophy
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.Collection: Philosophy
A piece of advice if I may be allowed to give it, is that no philosophy, no creed, no God is worth more than the love that one human being may give and receive in their lifetime – this is what is meant by being ‘involved’.Collection: Philosophy
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.Collection: Philosophy
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.Collection: Philosophy
We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.Collection: Philosophy
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.Collection: Philosophy
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.Collection: Philosophy
He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.Collection: Philosophy
What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.Collection: Philosophy
Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.Collection: Philosophy
My personal philosophy of life is one of ethicsCollection: Philosophy
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum videoCollection: Philosophy
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.Collection: Philosophy
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.Collection: Philosophy
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.Collection: Philosophy
The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.Collection: Philosophy