Tag: philosophy

When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough....

We must think beyond ourselves...

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world....

Nat: Maybe you broke something.Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!Nat: Ah, it’s nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That’s the system. Two years old, you stand...

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!...

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man....

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert...

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed....

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world...

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions....