Philosopher Quotes

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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