“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to students of evolution, rooted in specific morphological characteristics of our species and thus cannot be eliminated from our… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share
“The search for the ultimate foundation is as much an unremovable part of European culture as is the denial of the legitimacy of this… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to students of evolution, rooted in specific morphological characteristics of our species and thus cannot be eliminated from our minds as long as our species retains its identity. As both Pandora’s most deplorable accident and the adventures of our… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share
“That being said, is there anything to say in support of utopian thinking? Everything, if the meaning of the word is somewhat restricted. If utopia means the highest set of values we want to defend and see implemented in social life, nothing prevents us from hanging on to all of them even if we know that they will never be… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share
“I am not a Kant expert and no Kantian but, I should say, a Kant sympathizer—especially where conflicts between Kantian and so-called historicist thinking… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“the freedom of individuals has – we may presume – an anthropological foundation. This is admittedly a doctrine which cannot be proved or disproved… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“it was Marx who declared that the whole idea of Communism could be summed up in a single formula—the abolition of private property; that… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
