Tag: philosophy

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest....

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if...

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it....

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature – and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine – fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle...

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term – it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why it’s better to be good than...

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly....

Listen.” Jennifer reverted, “I didn’t mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and …” She struggled for the right words. “Sweetie, like love, people don’t live inside of life, life lives inside of...

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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?...

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night....