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“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.”

“It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main reason is, of course, the philosophical or spiritual element in this story. We know as little today about the secrets of Creation and evolution as we knew before, and it is not likely that we'll ever know much more. We'll have to be satisfied, as Kubrick was, respectfully admiring the potential for evolution within the mystery of the universe's creation.”

“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”

Wells Courses Risk Opposites Philosophical Customs

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.”

People Thinking Courses Doubt Middle Philosophical Posture

Book:The Honourable Schoolboy

Source: The Honourable Schoolboy

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”

Knows Courses Knowledge Philosophical Intelligence Useless Uselessness Useless Things Useless Stuff

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.”

Ifs Men Moments Lying Courses Differences Situation Particular Behavior Men And Women Philosophical Errors Photograph Lasting Capture Moments In Time Snapshots

Book:Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Source: Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

“So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Looks Hard Seems Courses Achieve Solutions Philosophical Obvious Inevitable Inevitability

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”

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Author:Boyd Rice

“It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.”

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Author:Jim Rohn