Philosopher Quotes

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
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