Category: philosopher
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A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
Aristotle
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell
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Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
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I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.
Noam Chomsky
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Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
George Santayana
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson