Addresses Quote by Graham Harvey

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality,…

— Emma Restall Orr

Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and…

— Jean Houston

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

— Learned Hand

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But…

— Francis Fukuyama

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

— Mark Rothko

“A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

— John Szarkowski

“Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

“Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.”

— Peter Singer

“The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.”

— Angela Y. Davis

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt