When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the… — Susanne Winnacker Copy Share Image
Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing,… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why not engage in aggression anyway?”… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.' 'Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Cognitive scientists recognize two types of rationality: instrumental and epistemic. The simplest definition of instrumental rationality-the one that emphasizes most that it… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity. The scientific… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image