Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
From Alfred North Whitehead
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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