Category: philosopher
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As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
Noam Chomsky
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx
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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle