Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called ‘censorship.’ If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose wh...
What do you think it is that makes a man" I started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words. "It is not!" he said. "A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he?" ... "Well, then, what makes a man a man is so...
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indign...
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I c...
Caregivers, like all of us, inevitably reflect their culture's attitude toward children and life. The story goes that when Pearl Buck was a child in China, someone asked how she compared her mother to her Chinese amah. Buck replied, "If I want to hav...
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclu...
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
I was not born with English in my pocket.
Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.
Love is fuel for the soul.
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded
You know, sometimes I even envy myself.
He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.
So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?
Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
To err is human, to stroll is Parisian.
