And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.
Jostein GaarderMots clés science philosophy epistemology
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Jeremy BenthamMots clés philosophy utilitarianism
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman MailerMots clés philosophy democracy revolution sense communism socialism activist radical common
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
John GardnerMots clés philosophy
When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be.
Oscar WildeMots clés choice philosophy
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.
Bertrand RussellMots clés philosophy atheism atheist agnosticism agnostic
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.
Ayn RandMots clés money philosophy capitalism government force profit businessmen
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac AsimovMots clés science philosophy
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
Terry JohnsonMots clés humor philosophy misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheMots clés history humanity philosophy
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