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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences…
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
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The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there…
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify…
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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
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Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to…
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The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble…
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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but…
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I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not…
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify…
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The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
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The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers…
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that…
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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to…
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