“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.” DemocracyOppositesTransformationPhilosophicalFoundationObstaclesStatementsDictatorshipTheoreticalDemocracies HaveBeneficiaries Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.” NeedsKindEndsPhilosophyStrongHeavenWonderKnowledgeProgressIgnoranceResearchPhilosophicalFoundationGenerousYieldHonour Author:Michel de Montaigne
“The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.” MenTwoPhilosophyHelpingLanguageTermPartyCommonWonderClassObjectsPhilosophicalFoundationStrategySizeCommunicateMilesDiscussionCarrieSchemesConnectingDomainMarketplaceTangibleAscentInscriptionsAscending Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” FirstsWishPlansHumilityInspirational LifePhilosophicalFoundationLaysSaintCloudsTowersPierceHumblenessLeadership By Famous LeadersDescendingHippoChristian HumilityHumility LeadershipHumility And LeadershipSin And Love Author:Saint Augustine
“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.” WayKindSaidPhilosophyMightStuffViewsBrainBloodMajorsFunctionPhilosophicalFoundationBonesAcknowledgeMusclesRecognizingKidneysGlands Author:Homer Smith
“If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.” IfsBelieveLooksAmericaSocialChurchChristianityAtheismPhilosophicalFoundationHumanismTheologyLiberationSecularMixturesMarxismCreepsStandpointLeftistsPseudoSecular Humanism Author:Ted Cruz
“I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.” PeopleWayFeelsPersonsMotherOpportunityAliveLuckyEmpathyPhilosophicalFoundationAppreciationCombinationShakesThinkerNew WaysRebelliousShake It UpLucky To Be Alive Author:Adrian Grenier
“..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.” IfsStatesPrinciplesAtheismPhilosophicalFoundationDenyArguingProvidenceConsistentlyTopicsAgnosticism Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” MenWorldFirstsIdeasGovernmentPoliticsNaturalWhiteRaceMoralConditionsEqualNormalStonesOppositesPhilosophicalFoundationSlaveryCornersSuperiorsWhite ManWorld HistoryAmerican Civil WarVice PresidentCornerstonesConfederateSubordinationNew GovernmentUs Civil WarConfederate Flag Author:Alexander H. Stephens