To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians,
friends, lovers and husbands.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians,
friends, lovers and husbands.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in read more
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous read more
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
