Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking as deeply and carefully and reflectively as I could about the nature of reality and our human engagement with it, and that taking a philosophical approach was the best way to go about doing this.
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.