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- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
- It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
- Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and…
- Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be…
- Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure…
- It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
- A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with…
- The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be…
- Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause…
- When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
- The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages,…
- Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else…
- Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,…
- Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle