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- Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it…
- The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
- I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a…
- In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and…
- All dreams continue in the beyond.
- There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted…
- Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some…
- There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed…
- As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with…
- The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to…
- All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with…
- salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the…
- The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there…
- Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
- Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays,…
- You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make…
- The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man.…
- If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist…
- Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle