Philosopher Quotes

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love.
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
«first‹previous7071727374757677787980next›last»
Total Records : 5508

Related Books

Share to your friends..

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive