The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is - Horace Walpole
Philosophy should be seen not as a hotline to truth about the Wwrld but as a loose literary tradition which might from time to time provide the public with new metaphors to live by, or new stories for articulating the past or imagining the future - http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9692
Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is, however, to change it - Karl Marx (on his tomb)
Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is, however, to change it - Karl Marx (on his tomb)
Ours is an epoch without a philosophy. We only study the philosophies of the past. When will a few great minds wake up and have the courage to give this world a contemporary, modern, useful, world-wide, global philosophy allowing us to enter with confidence into the coming new age, new century and millennium? - Robert Muller
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia - George Orwell
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment - Willis Player