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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full,… — George Moore Copy Share Image
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are… — Plato Copy Share Image
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I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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“(...) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
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The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
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“I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
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“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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