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- To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
- Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from…
- The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep…
- Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become…
- There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.
- Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,…
- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because,…
- We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us…
- Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the…
- Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
- Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies…
- Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
- Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong