“It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.” MatterPhilosophySpiritualHolyDefinitionsCategorization Author:Frederick Lenz
“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.” IfsPhilosophyPastAcceptingHistoryOur LivesWindUniversalResponseMalesDefinitionsMythBiasOur PastLensesDrifting Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.” YearsFirstsCountryPhilosophyCarePoorRichProtectHappeningsWeakWesternGreedDefinitionsTake CareDecentHopelessLoserIndifferentWestern Society Author:John le Carre
“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.” KnowsNeedsTryingLooksMeanPhilosophyMovingOrderLanguageTalkingImaginePerceptionSolutionsDefinitionsDeterminePsychologicalRetiringRelevantMazesBerkeley Author:David Berman
“That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.” ThinkingEnoughPhilosophyFundamentalsDefinitionsMetaphysicsHegel Author:Frederick C. Beiser