“The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.” LooksPhilosophyPurposeChoicesFunChallengesMoralStrangeLaughterGuidesEmploymentOur ChoicesMoral PhilosophyHealth BeautyBeauty Happiness Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.” IfsSaidDifferentPhilosophyAbleWonderBreakStrangePrejudiceLaysFamiliarFancyNativePlatoSlumberDogmaticPlato And Aristotle Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in” PeopleWorldPhilosophyEnemyStrangeWall Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.” IfsThinkingShouldI CanPhilosophyHelpingActionYoungBrainSkyAtheismStrangeConcernPuberty Author:Lord Byron
“The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.” PeopleMenMadeEndsStatesPhilosophyPoliticalOrderTurnsStrangeHundredPerformancesBoxesEducatedSatInsultOperaExecutionWeepingPolitical PhilosophyImprisonmentMoscow Author:Tom Clancy