For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This quasi-religious function of the theory is, I think, what lies behind many of the extre...
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has...
Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It calls us to consider the sobering similarities betwee...
Mr. Ellison is that unreasonable man that possesses the ostranenie effect-- he has a keen eye to see the simplest things and make them profound, and make simple minded people see deeply into mundane topics- bringing a philosophical charm to even poli...
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. Th...
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed l...
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the p...
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.
Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.
My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.
Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.
