Tag: philosophy

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that....

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension...

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses....

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds....

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free....

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves....

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it....

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit....

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world....

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like...