“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.” KnowsFirstsTwoImportantReasonPhilosophyOpinionImpossibleMiddleIgnoranceTruth IsImportant ThingsThreatExtremesSensibleQuestsUnnecessaryMiddle GroundTwo ExtremesSocratic Author:Allan Bloom
“The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.” PhilosophyAttitudeExtremesPermanentSensitiveReverenceSkepticismLimitlessMental Attitude Author:John Cowper Powys
“The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.” ArtPhilosophyHistoryCrimeCivilizationExtremesBarbarism Author:Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
“Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.” PhilosophyPoliticalExtremesLiberalismDisorderPolitical PhilosophyMental Disorder Author:Michael Savage
“And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.” WorldMadePhilosophyHandsAttitudeFireFiguresExtremesCampsAcquisitionShamanism Author:Terence McKenna
“One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.” ThinkingWayMindLooksTwoMatterPhilosophyRealityConsciousnessProductsIllusionExtremesObjectivesOne WayPhenomenonStrictIdealistDeterminismCollisionPhilosophicObjective Reality Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.” Has BeensPhilosophyJusticeQualityShareRegretCriticismExtremesCriticalI RegretJudicialSuccessorsSandra Day O Connor Author:Patrick Leahy