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- I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
- Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike…
- Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
- Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of…
- The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing…
- Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and…
- We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time…
- When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong