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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in read more
...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.
