Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.
The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.
The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.
He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it. . . It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober. ' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.