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“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.”

Philosophy Lasts Party Behinds Class Struggle Failing Modern Criticism Tendencies Ideology Analysis Modern Society Scholasticism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.”

People Mean Philosophy Happens Political Belief Half Violence Ideals Murder Excuse Excited Noise Ideology Gas Strings Stomach Meaningless Dozen Neighbour Ambiguous Drivel

Book:After Many a Summer

Source: After Many a Summer

“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”

“There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a deeper study of his philosophies. Confucius' ideals stand true even today. His philosophy on how to be a Junzi or the perfect gentleman is based on the simple ideology of love and tolerance.”

World Philosophy Today Interest Simple Perfect Study Growing Ideals China Deeper Tolerance Ideology Gentleman Followers Advocating Confucianism Perfect Gentleman

Author:Confucius

“I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.”

People Knows Kind Doe Done Enough Philosophy Hate Term Modern Needed I Hate Philosopher Complaining All Kinds Ideology Introducing Annoyed Jargon New Words

Author:William H. Gass

“All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”

Philosophy Boundaries Genuine Ideology Patriotic

Author:Mario Bunge

“Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.”

Philosophy Reality Lying Fit Illusion Arise Doctrine Ideology Communist Fraud Falsehood Theologian Medieval Distortion Patents Elevation Simplification Truman Anti Communist

Author:J. William Fulbright

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”

Thinking Doe Philosophy Life Is Religion Atheism Prison Everyday Ideology Everyday Life Alienation Plenitude

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits.”

Men Has Beens Philosophy Form Certain He Man Limits Advantage Decided Prepared Myth Accepted Superiors Ideology Favour Noisy

Book:Against method: Outline of anarchistic theory of knowledge

Source: Against method: Outline of anarchistic theory of knowledge

“I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.”

Philosophy Political Social Opinion Ideology Political Opinions

Author:Clifford Geertz