Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. . . . Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
There is no possible source of evil except good.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you. " That's kind of how I try to look at things. Isn't that true, when you look back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations.
Born free. Taxed to death.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.