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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
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Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…
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What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global…
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all…
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a…
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...…
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation…
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If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what…
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on…
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PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
— Jose Saramago
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Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the…
— David Hume
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Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law…
— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
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